PDF.co Web API - PDF Text Search API - PowerShell - PDF Text Search from URL

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How to PDF text search API in PowerShell with PDF.co Web API

This tutorial will show how to PDF text search API in PowerShell

With this source code sample you may quickly learn how to PDF text search API in PowerShell. PDF.co Web API is the flexible Web API that includes full set of functions from e-signature requests to data extraction, OCR, images recognition, pdf splitting and pdf splitting. Can also generate barcodes and read barcodes from images, scans and pdf. It can be used to PDF text search API using PowerShell.

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GetPdfTextSearchFromUrl.ps1

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

# Direct URL of PDF file to get information
$SourceFileURL = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-text/sample.pdf"

# Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. Leave empty for all pages. Example: '0,2-5,7-'.
$Pages = ""

# PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents.
$Password = ""

# Search string. 
$SearchString = '\d{1,}\.\d\d' #Regular expression to find numbers like '100.00'

# Enable regular expressions (Regex) 
$RegexSearch = 'True'

# Prepare URL for PDF text search API call.
# See documentation: https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api/1.0/pdf/find.html
$query = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/find"

# Prepare request body (will be auto-converted to JSON by Invoke-RestMethod)
# See documentation: https://apidocs.pdf.co
$body = @{
    "password" = $Password
    "pages" = $Pages
    "url" = $SourceFileURL
    "searchString" = $SearchString
    "regexSearch" = $RegexSearch
} | ConvertTo-Json

try {
    # Execute request
    $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY; "Content-Type" = "application/json" } -Body $body -Uri $query

    $jsonResponse = $response.Content | ConvertFrom-Json

    if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) {
        # Display search information
        foreach ($item in $jsonResponse.body) {
            Write-Host "Found text $($item.text) at coordinates $($item.left), $($item.top)"
        }
    }
    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 "& .\GetPdfTextSearchFromUrl.ps1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause