Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: PDFKit.GetPDFText

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PDFKit.GetPDFText

Queries the text of the PDF document.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
PDFKit	2.1	Yes	No	No	Yes, macOS only	Yes

MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFText"; PDF ) 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.

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.

Result

The text of the PDF Document as far as PDFKit knows it.

Description

Queries the text of the PDF document.
If you need only text for a given page, please use PDFKit.GetPDFPageText.

For solutions on Windows, Linux or iOS, please use DynaPDF.ExtractText.

Examples

Extract all the text from the given PDF reference:

MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFText"; $ref )

Example Databases

Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Extract PDF Pages

Blog Entries

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 9th September 2016

PDFKit.GetPDFPagesPDFRef - PDFKit.GetPrintLastSettings

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