qnox_pdf_text #

A Flutter plugin for extracting text from PDF documents on Android (using pdfbox-android) and iOS (using PDFKit).
Supports both local PDFs and online PDFs via a simple API.

✨ Features #

• Extract all text from a PDF
• Extract text from a specific page
• Get total page count
• Works with local file paths and remote URLs (HTTP/HTTPS)

📦 Installation #

Add the dependency to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  qnox_pdf_text: ^0.1.2

Then run: #

    flutter pub get

🚀 Usage #

    import 'package:qnox_pdf_text/qnox_pdf_text.dart';

    final pdf = QnoxPdfText();

    // From local file
    final pages = await pdf.pageCount('/path/to/file.pdf');
    final pageText = await pdf.extractPageText('/path/to/file.pdf', 0);

    // From online URL
    final urlPages = await pdf.pageCountFromUrl('https://example.com/sample.pdf');
    final allText = await pdf.extractTextFromUrl('https://example.com/sample.pdf');

📱 Platform Notes #

• Android • Requires mavenCentral() in Gradle • Uses pdfbox-android internally

• iOS • Minimum iOS 13.0 • Uses native PDFKit

📄 License #

MIT License

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