raw table data output

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ fs.readFile('./test.pdf', function (err, buffer) {
     });
 });
 
+```
+### Getting raw table data
+X-axis data is being stripped in the default mode, but may be necessary to reconstruct the table extracted from the pdf. This can be retrieved by passing 'true' as the raw argument, which is false by default.
+```
+pdf2table.parse(buffer, function, raw = false)
 ```
 
 ## Note

lib/pdf2table.js

@@ -25,30 +25,30 @@ SOFTWARE.
 var path = require('path');
 var PDFParser = require("pdf2json/pdfparser");
 
-
-function parse (pdfBuffer, callback) {
+// will return raw cell data including x-coordinates if raw = true
+function parse (pdfBuffer, callback, raw = false) {
 	var pdfParser = new PDFParser();
 
 	// adding try/catch/printstack 'cause pdfParser seems to prevent errors from bubbing up (weird implementation).
 	// It also doesn't seem to implement the callback(err, otherdata) convention used in most Node.js modules, so let's fix that here.
 	pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataReady", function (data) {
 		try{
-			pdfParserCallback(null, data);
+			pdfParserCallback(null, data, raw);
 		}catch(err){
 			console.log(err.stack);
 		}
 	});
 
 	pdfParser.on("pdfParser_dataError", function (err) {
 		try{
-			pdfParserCallback(err, null);
+			pdfParserCallback(err, null, raw);
 		}catch(err){
 			console.log(err.stack);
 		}
 	});
 
 
-	function pdfParserCallback (err, data) {
+	function pdfParserCallback (err, data, raw) {
 		if(err) return callback(err);
 
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ function parse (pdfBuffer, callback) {
 				var rowEntries = []
 				var row = myPages[p][r].data;
 				for (var i = 0; i < row.length; i++) {
-					rowEntries.push(row[i].text)
+					rowEntries.push(raw ? row[i] : row[i].text)
 				}
 				// now append the extracted and ordered text into the return rows.
 				rows.push(rowEntries);			};