When could I install external node library ?

thierry

@Michael Udinski

Hi, we read this https://xano.nolt.io/98 after trying to install https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf2json . Please let us know if this could be available soon, its urgent for us for not using another external api and lose time.
thank you, Thierry

jakespirek

@thierry We've reviewed this with engineering and unfortunately we're not going to be able to add this library.

We'd recommend using an external service with an API for this conversion.

It could be done with a microservice on our enterprise plan, but the external service will probably be the best fit for your needs.

Michael Udinski

Hi @thierry — this is planned for the roadmap but is not yet in development.

Can you provide more information about your use case need and the JS library needed for it? If you can provide me with specific details, I can relay this back to engineering to see if the library can be added ahead of the custom install feature, no guarantees but I'll see what I can do!

thierry

Hi @Michael Udinski , thank you for your nice reply.

Regarding the use case, the idea is to extract textual information from pdf files. The pdf2json package can do that, it is available from npm : https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf2json , it has a couple of dependencies that come automatically with the package installation when using npm (npm i pdf2json). I see that xano already provides some node packages to lambda functions. It would be really nice to have pdf2json available the same way.

thierry

Hi @Michael Udinski we are on the project and waiting to your answer prior to select an external (unwanted) node/hosting solution…. please :)

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