pdftotextjs provides access to pdftotext via shell in nodejs. You'll need pdftotext which comes with poppler-utils.

• Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt-get install poppler-utils.
• MacOSX sudo port install poppler or brew install xpdf.
• Windows download and install Xpdf.

via npm:

$ npm install pdftotextjs

const pdftotext = require('pdftotextjs');
const pdf = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf');
 
pdf.add_options(['-f 1', '-l 1']);
 
pdf.getText()
.then(result) {
  console.log(result);
})
.catch(function (err) {
  console.error(err);
});
 

const pdftotext = require('pdftotextjs');
const pdf = new pdftotext('test/pdfs/sample.pdf');
 
const data = pdf.getTextSync(); 
console.log(data.toString('utf8'));

$ npm test