Type Error: Textract is not a function

[kittureddy123]

Hi Team,
I am running the resume parser in windows platform, i am getting the following error

\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\libs\processing.js:51
textract(file, {preserveLineBreaks: true}, function(err, data) {
^
TypeError: textract is not a function
at extractText (e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\libs\processing.js:51:3)
at Object.processFile [as run] (e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\libs\processing.js:15:3)
at e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\ParseBoy.js:27:16
at Function..each..forEach (e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:153:9)
at ParseBoy.willHelpWithPleasure (e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\ParseBoy.js:26:4)
at SomeHR. (e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\app.js:36:14)
at e:\code4goal-resume-parser-master\src\SomeHR.js:35:21
at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:135:15)

I have installed below version dependencies
"request": "^2.53.0",
"textract": "^2.2.0",
"underscore": "^1.8.3"

[likerRr]

Sorry, at the moment I'm not supporting this project. But it's planned in the near future

[ramvemula]

Change the line no 51 in processing.js as below to solve this issue.
textract.fromFileWithPath(file, {preserveLineBreaks: true}, function(err, data) {

[likerRr]

@ramvemula this is because resume-parser requires [email protected], but seems like you are using textract@v2+. Did you manually install textract?

[ramvemula]

Yes, I manually installed textract@v2 to fix the other issues like extractors not installed for type doc, docx, pdf etc.
After that I was getting this Type Error : textract is not a function. So I fixed this issue by changing the line 51 in processing.js

[likerRr]

I know, there are a lot of issues in resume-parser, but I don't have time to fix them.

I pushed a new branch called ce. Please, read some instructions here. If you have a PR which solves some issues - please welcome to push it.

[monicaguduru]

Change the line no 51 in processing.js as below to solve this issue.
textract.fromFileWithPath(file, {preserveLineBreaks: true}, function(err, data) {

I am getting this error when I changed line no 51:

HR manager:

• My stack for today are: .gitkeep, ErnaniJoppert P Martins.pdf, Monica_Guduru_Resume.pdf, resume.html, resume.txt
  Parse Boy:
• Hi, i can help you with .gitkeep, ErnaniJoppert P Martins.pdf, Monica_Guduru_Resume.pdf, resume.html, resume.txt
  Error: Incorrect parameters passed to textract.
  at returnArgsError (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\node_modules\textract\lib\index.js:36:15)
  at fromFileWithMimeAndPath (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\node_modules\textract\lib\index.js:79:5)
  at Object.fromFileWithPath (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\node_modules\textract\lib\index.js:88:5)
  at extractText (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\src\libs\processing.js:51:12)
  at Object.processFile [as run] (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\src\libs\processing.js:15:3)
  at C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\src\ParseBoy.js:27:16
  at Function..each._.forEach (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:186:9)
  at ParseBoy.willHelpWithPleasure (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\src\ParseBoy.js:26:4)
  at SomeHR. (C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\app.js:36:14)
  at C:\Users\monica\Desktop\code4goal-resume-parser\src\SomeHR.js:35:21
  (node:15744) [DEP0026] DeprecationWarning: util.print is deprecated. Use console.log instead.
• I'm working with "resume.html" now
• I'm working with "resume.txt" now
• I'm working with "ErnaniJoppert P Martins.pdf" now
• I'm working with "Monica_Guduru_Resume.pdf" now
  null
  null
  null

Can you please look into it?

[likerRr]

@monicaguduru have you manually installed textract@v2 alongside with changing the code?

[monicaguduru]

@likerRr Yeah. I had the same problem so I changed the line and installed it again. But now I am getting another error quoted above. It is returning all null values. Also, I installed [email protected] as you said in the previous comment, but this did not help.

[monicaguduru]

@likerRr @ramvemula I am not able to fix this issue.

[likerRr]

@monicaguduru can you debug that error yourself? I mean, can you find, what exactly prints null? And if it's possible to add a link to line of code from github.

As mentioned in the readme file, that repo is not maintained at the moment at all. So i can't operatively solve your issue, sorry.

[fadiajabeen]

To reslove "Error: Incorrect parameters passed to textract."
edit processing.js line 51 like this
textract.fromFileWithPath(path.resolve(file), {preserveLineBreaks: true}, function(err, data) {
because when I printed the file, each path had some forward some backward slashes.
Plus I deleted .gitkeep file from public folder from which all files are picked for parsing. Now its working.