How to split PDF by text from uploaded file for PDF splitting API in PHP with PDF.co Web API
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split-pdf.php
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>PDF Splitting Results</title> </head> <body> <?php // Note: If you have input files large than 200kb we highly recommend to check "async" mode example. // Get submitted form data $apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api $splitText = $_POST["splitText"]; // 1. RETRIEVE THE PRESIGNED URL TO UPLOAD THE FILE. // * If you already have a direct PDF file link, go to the step 3. // Create URL $url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/file/upload/get-presigned-url" . "?name=" . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "&contenttype=application/octet-stream"; // Create request $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey)); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Execute request $result = curl_exec($curl); if (curl_errno($curl) == 0) { $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($status_code == 200) { $json = json_decode($result, true); // Get URL to use for the file upload $uploadFileUrl = $json["presignedUrl"]; // Get URL of uploaded file to use with later API calls $accessFileUrl = $json["url"]; // 2. UPLOAD THE FILE TO CLOUD. $localFile = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"]; $fileHandle = fopen($localFile, "r"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $uploadFileUrl); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("content-type: application/octet-stream")); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fileHandle); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localFile)); // Execute request curl_exec($curl); fclose($fileHandle); if (curl_errno($curl)) { // Display request error echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl); } else { $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($status_code == 200) { // 3. SPLIT UPLOADED PDF DOCUMENT SplitPdf($apiKey, $accessFileUrl, $splitText); } else { // Display service reported error echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; } } } else { // Display service reported error echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; } curl_close($curl); } else { // Display CURL error echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl); } function SplitPdf($apiKey, $fileUrl, $splitText) { // Prepare URL for `Split PDF By Text` API call $url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/split2"; // Prepare requests params $parameters = array(); $parameters["name"] = "part.pdf"; $parameters["url"] = $fileUrl; $parameters["searchString"] = $splitText; // Create Json payload $data = json_encode($parameters); // Create request $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json")); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); // Execute request $result = curl_exec($curl); if (curl_errno($curl) == 0) { $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($status_code == 200) { $json = json_decode($result, true); if ($json["error"] == false) { // Display links to splitted parts $resultFiles = $json["urls"]; foreach ($resultFiles as &$resultFileUrl) echo "<p><a href=" . $resultFileUrl . ">" . $resultFileUrl . "</p>"; } else { // Display service reported error echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>"; } } else { // Display request error echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; } } else { // Display request error echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl); } // Cleanup curl_close($curl); } ?> </body> </html>
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