Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: PDFKit.GetPDFPageFormattedText

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PDFKit.GetPDFPageFormattedText

Queries the styled text of a page in a PDF document.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
PDFKit	2.7	Yes	No	No	Yes, macOS only	Yes

MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFPageFormattedText"; PDF; index ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example

PDF A container value with the PDF content from a media field. Or a text with an URL. Or a PDF reference from PDFKit.Open.

index The index of the page. From zero to PDFKit.GetPDFPageCount-1. 5

Parameter	Description	Example
PDF	A container value with the PDF content from a media field. Or a text with an URL. Or a PDF reference from PDFKit.Open.
index	The index of the page. From zero to PDFKit.GetPDFPageCount-1.	5

Result

The styled text of the PDF page as far as PDFKit knows it and the plugin can translate it.

Description

Queries the styled text of a page in a PDF document.
Our plugin translates the styled text from PDFKit to FileMaker. It should work with font size and styles like bold, underline and italic.

Examples

Extract styled text of page 6 in this PDF

MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFPageFormattedText"; $ref; 5 )

Example Databases

Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Extract PDF Pages

Blog Entries

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 16th February 2015

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