How to Search PDF with PDF.co Using Zapier
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Please check this tutorial to learn how to search PDF files using PDF.co and Zapier integration. To proceed, please follow the steps below:
For this demo, we will use this sample invoice.

Step 1: Make a Zap!
- To begin, let’s start by logging into your Zapier account and clicking on the Create Zap button.
Step 2: Choose an App & Event
- After the input PDF source is specified, the next step is to Choose App & Event. Pick PDF.co as the app and Search in PDF as the event.

Step 3: Connect your PDF.co Account to Zapier
- To connect your PDF.co account to Zapier add your API Key. You can obtain the API Key in your PDF.co dashboard.

Step 4: Specify Criteria Under Customize Search in PDF
- In Direct Link To Source PDF, provide or build an input URL for the source PDF.
- In the Text To Search section, enter the text that you would like to find in the input document. If you prefer a regular expression, enter it here.
- Choose whether the provided search text will be a regular expression or a direct search in the Use Regular Expression section.
- Leave the Pages field empty or enter the page range if you have specific pages to search in.

Step 5: Test Action
- Now, let’s test the action to make sure that we set it up correctly.

Step 6: Result
- Here is the search in PDF result. The resulting URL is a downloadable JSON file.

Now, you know how to do a text search within a PDF file using PDF.co and Zapier integration.
To learn more about specific tasks with PDF.co Web API, check out our Tutorials.
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