How to parse from url for document parser API in Powershell and PDF.co Web API

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Writing of the code to parse from url in Powershell can be done by developers of any level using PDF.co Web API. PDF.co Web API was designed to assist document parser API in Powershell. PDF.co Web API is the Rest API that provides set of data extraction functions, tools for documents manipulation, splitting and merging of pdf files. Includes built-in OCR, images recognition, can generate and read barcodes from images, scans and pdf.

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MultiPageTable-template1.yml

      
templateName: Multipage Table Test
templateVersion: 4
templatePriority: 0
detectionRules:
  keywords:
  - Sample document with multi-page table
objects:
- name: total
  objectType: field
  fieldProperties:
    fieldType: macros
    expression: TOTAL{{Spaces}}({{Number}})
    regex: true
    dataType: decimal
- name: table1
  objectType: table
  tableProperties:
    start:
      expression: Item{{Spaces}}Description{{Spaces}}Price
      regex: true
    end:
      expression: TOTAL{{Spaces}}{{Number}}
      regex: true
    row:
      expression: '{{LineStart}}{{Spaces}}(?<itemNo>{{Digits}}){{Spaces}}(?<description>{{SentenceWithSingleSpaces}}){{Spaces}}(?<price>{{Number}}){{Spaces}}(?<qty>{{Digits}}){{Spaces}}(?<extPrice>{{Number}})'
      regex: true
    columns:
    - name: itemNo
      dataType: integer
    - name: description
      dataType: string
    - name: price
      dataType: decimal
    - name: qty
      dataType: integer
    - name: extPrice
      dataType: decimal
    multipage: true

ParseFromUrl.ps1

      
# The authentication key (API Key).
# Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api
$API_KEY = "***********************************"

# Source PDF file url
$SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/document-parser/MultiPageTable.pdf"

# Destination JSON file name
$DestinationFile = ".\result.json"


try {
    # Parse url
    # Template text. Use Document Parser SDK (https://bytescout.com/products/developer/documentparsersdk/index.html)
    # to create templates.
    # Read template from file:
    $templateContent = [IO.File]::ReadAllText(".\MultiPageTable-template1.yml")

    # Prepare URL for `Document Parser` API call
    $query = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/documentparser"

    # Content
    $Body = @{
        "url" = $SourceFileUrl;
        "template" = $templateContent;
    }
    
    # Execute request
    $jsonResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Post' -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY } -Uri $query -Body ($Body|ConvertTo-Json) -ContentType "application/json"
    if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) {
        # Get URL of generated HTML file
        $resultFileUrl = $jsonResponse.url;
        
        # Download output file
        Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY } -OutFile $DestinationFile -Uri $resultFileUrl
        Write-Host "Generated output file saved as `"$($DestinationFile)`" file."
    }
    else {
        # Display service reported error
        Write-Host $jsonResponse.message
    }
}
catch {
    # Display request error
    Write-Host $_.Exception
}

run.bat

      
@echo off

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\ParseFromUrl.ps1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause

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