Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: DynaPDF.ExtractPageText

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DynaPDF.ExtractPageText

Extracts the text of the page.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	iOS SDK
DynaPDF	3.0	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes

Deprecated

This function was deprecated. Use DynaPDF.ExtractText instead.

MBS( "DynaPDF.ExtractPageText"; PDF; pageIndex ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example

PDF The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New. $pdf

pageIndex The number of the page. Must be within 1 and DynaPDF.GetPageCount. 1

Parameter	Description	Example
PDF	The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New.	$pdf
pageIndex	The number of the page. Must be within 1 and DynaPDF.GetPageCount.	1

Result

Returns the text or error message.

Description

Extracts the text of the page.
Use DynaPDF.ExtractDocumentText is you need text from whole document.

For Mac only solutions, you can also try PDFKit.GetPDFPageText instead.
Needs DynaPDF Lite license.

Examples

Queries page text of page 5:

$text = MBS( "DynaPDF.ExtractPageText"; $PDF; 5 )

Load PDF and extract text of page 2:

# initialize DynaPDF before running this:
Set Variable [$pdf; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.New")]
# load PDF from container
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.OpenPDFFromContainer";$pdf; Test::data)]
# import all pages
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.ImportPDFFile";$pdf)]
# extra text of page 2
Set Field [Test::PageText; MBS("DynaPDF.ExtractPageText"; $pdf; 2)]
#Cleanup
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.Release"; $pdf)]