Atomic Web Service (AWS, REST API) for converting DOC/DOCX files to plain/text, powered by catdoc, docx2txt and Node.js

Part of the "Personal Research Information System" atomic web services ecosystem.

Program runs on modern MacOS and Linux distributions. To run program you will need:

• catdoc
• docx2txt
• Node.js

$ git clone https://github.com/malakhovks/doc-docx-extract-api.git

Run program in development mode (default port: 3001; log-mode: development). Winston logging level will be set to debug and transport debug/info/warning logs to Console:

$ npm run start-development

You can set port in ./config/development.json:

{
  "port": 3001,
  "log-mode": "development"
}

Run program in production mode (default port: 3001; log-mode: production). Winston logging level will be set to error and transport error logs to Console:

$ npm run start-production

You can set port in ./config/production.json:

{
  "port": 3001,
  "log-mode": "production"
}

$ curl -X POST -F "[email protected]" http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/doctotext
$ curl -X POST -F "[email protected]" http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/docxtotext

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
body: raw text