How to Read and Parse PDFs with PDF.js and Create PDFs with PDF Lib in Node.js
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Two popular npm packages handle PDF manipulation in Node.js: pdf-lib for creating and modifying PDFs, and pdfjs-dist for reading and parsing PDF content. pdf-lib allows creating new PDFs and adding elements, while pdfjs-dist enables extracting text from existing PDFs by iterating through pages.
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