partial implementation of bar code parsing from PDF

app/lib/pdf/pdf2png.ts

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+import { PDFPageProxy } from 'pdfjs-dist';
+import { BrowserPDF417Reader } from '@zxing/browser';
+import * as pdfJSx from 'pdfjs-dist';
+
+
+/**
+ * Render the first page of a PDF document onto a new canvas.
+ * @param {Event} event - The change event from an HTMLInputElement.
+ * @return {Promise<HTMLCanvasElement | null>} The canvas with the first page of the PDF, or null if the document is not a PDF.
+ */
+export async function pdf2canvas(event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): Promise<HTMLCanvasElement | null> {
+    const file = (event.target as HTMLInputElement).files?.[0];
+
+    if(!file) {
+        console.error('No file was selected.');
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    if (file.type !== 'application/pdf') {
+        console.error(file.name, 'is not a .pdf file.');
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    const reader = new FileReader();
+    const data = await new Promise<Uint8Array>((resolve, reject) => {
+        reader.onload = (e) => resolve(new Uint8Array((e.target as FileReader).result as ArrayBuffer));
+        reader.onerror = (e) => reject(e);
+        reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
+    });
+
+    const pdfJS = await import('pdfjs-dist');
+
+    // worker file was manually copied to the `public` folder
+    pdfJS.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = window.location.origin + '/pdf.worker.min.mjs';
+
+    const pdf = await pdfJS.getDocument(data).promise;
+    
+    const page: PDFPageProxy = await pdf.getPage(1);
+
+    const scale = 1.5;
+    const viewport = page.getViewport({ scale });
+
+    const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+    const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
+    canvas.height = viewport.height;
+    canvas.width = viewport.width;
+
+    await page.render({ canvasContext: context as CanvasRenderingContext2D, viewport }).promise;
+
+    const codeReader = new BrowserPDF417Reader();
+
+    const result = await codeReader.decodeFromCanvas(canvas);
+
+    console.log(result);
+
+    // codeReader.decode(imageData);
+    
+    return null;
+}

app/lib/pdf/pdfjs.ts

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+"use client";
+
+import * as pdfjsModule from 'pdfjs-dist';
+
+const pdfjs = (
+  'default' in pdfjsModule ? pdfjsModule['default'] : pdfjsModule
+) as typeof pdfjsModule;
+
+export default pdfjs;