Use word-extractor in typescript

[popiero]

Good afternoon,
I'd like extract text from buffer of doc and docx file.

But I don't know as import the library into my ts file.

I used
import * as WORDEXTRACTOR from 'word-extractor';

and implemented this code:

WORDEXTRACTOR.fromBuffer(originalFile).then((doc: any) => {
// eslint-disable-next-line no-console
console.log(doc.getBody());
});

But in compile time I have an error :

Error ole....

Can You help me, please ?

I hope that this library is ok for my goal.

Thanks, everybody.

[morungos]

Hmmm, not sure I am qualified to comment on TypeScript, because I haven't really switched over to using it yet. However, there's no types here, so I will hazard as guess that it is the same as modern JavaScript import usage.

So I tested this, and, if I create a file, test.mjs as follows:

import WORDEXTRACTOR from 'word-extractor';
const extractor = new WORDEXTRACTOR();

Then it can run...

node --experimental-modules  test.mjs

However, modifying it to:

import * as WORDEXTRACTOR from 'word-extractor';
const extractor = new WORDEXTRACTOR();

does not. As far as I can tell, this applies to all modules, and is basically what import * is supposed to do, i.e., slurp in all the exports, named and otherwise, into a single object. The constructor would then be available as new WORDEXTRACTOR.default().

The best way around it is to use:

import WORDEXTRACTOR from 'word-extractor';

For now, I am assuming this is to do with import *, not the module, and therefore closing. Please feel free to comment if this is not correct or as you expect.