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This extensions enables your logic to extract data information from PDF document.

toPdf

Opens an input as a PDF document

input | toPdf (options)

• options: Object to provide set of options
  • textExtractionMethod: When not specified, the default is instructions
    • instructions: Extract text as the raw PDF instructions
    • words: Extract text by using the instructions and creates words
• input: Path as string, loaded bytes or Stream
• returns: a PDF object

Example:
pdf = file| toPdf ({textExtractionMethod:'words'})

pdfIndexOf

Finds list of page indices that match a pattern

pdf | pdfIndexOf (pattern, skipCount)

• pdf: PDF document object
• skipCount: number of pages to skip (default is 0)
• returns: a list of pages indices that match pattern e.g. [17,19,34]

pdfExtract

Extract one or more pages from a PDF document

pdf | pdfExtract (pages, outputFile)

• pages: array of page index (0 based)
• outputFile: path of the file to extract to
• returns: full file name of the output file

pdfSplit

Splits a PDF document based on a matching pattern

pdf | pdfSplit (pattern, outputFilePattern, skipCount)

• pattern: a regular expression pattern
• outputFilePattern: Allows dynamically build a set of file paths for the split documents.
  • Single string value: In the path using {$GroupName} can be used to reference a match value of pattern
  • Array of string: Must match the numbers of documents that are being split
• skipCount: number of pages to skip (default is 0)
• returns: full files path of split documents.

Example: Splitting a document that must return 3 items and will be stored in the provided location

list = pdf|pdfSplit('(ATTACHMENT\\sTO\\sTAX)(\\n*\\s*INVOICE)(\\n*\\s*Page\\s1\\sof\\s(\\d*))(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*Matter\\n*\\s*(?<matter>\\d*))', ['D:/1.pdf', 'D:/2.pdf', 'D:/3.pdf'])

Example: Splitting a document with dynamic name based on pattern

list = pdf|pdfSplit('(ATTACHMENT\\sTO\\sTAX)(\\n*\\s*INVOICE)(\\n*\\s*Page\\s1\\sof\\s(\\d*))(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*.*)(\\n*\\s*Matter\\n*\\s*(?<matter>\\d*))','Matter-{$matter}.pdf')

Tutorial

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