// NOT FUNCTIONAL // THE PDF LIBRARY PROBABLY WON'T WORK WITH THE CODE AS IT IS export const parsePdfData = (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => { console.log("start parsePdfData"); // A visit from a web browser? Serve a HTML page with a form if (req.method === "GET") { return res.send(` Fillable Pdf Form

Upload PDF Form

`); } console.log("past html"); const handle = async () => { console.log("in async iife"); const multer = await import("npm:multer"); const PDFParser = await import("npm:pdf-parse"); console.log("imports awaited"); const upload = multer(); console.log("multer()"); const onUpload = (req, res) => { console.log("enter onUpload"); // Get the uploaded PDF file const pdfFile = req.file.buffer; console.log("got pdfFile: ", { pdfFile }); // Use the PDFParser library to parse the PDF data PDFParser.loadPDF(pdfFile) .then((pdfData) => { console.log("got pdfData: ", { pdfData }); // Check if the PDF has fillable form data const hasFormData = pdfData.formImage.Pages.some((page) => page.Fields.length > 0 ); if (!hasFormData) { return res.status(400).send( "The PDF does not have fillable form data.", ); } // Extract the form data and send it as the response const formData = pdfData.formImage.Fields; res.json(formData); }) .catch((error) => { console.error(error); res.status(500).send("Failed to parse the PDF file."); }); }; upload(req, res, onUpload); }; console.log("about to handle"); handle(); };

Vals using multer