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PDFKit.GetPDFText
Queries the text of the PDF document.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| PDFKit | 2.1 | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Yes, on macOS | ✅ Yes |
MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFText"; PDF ) More
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
This is the same as the ExtractTextFromPDF() function in FileMaker 22.0
Examples
Extract all the text from the given PDF reference:
MBS( "PDFKit.GetPDFText"; $ref )
See also
- DynaPDF.ExtractDocumentText
- DynaPDF.ExtractText
- OCR.SetImage
- PDFKit.GetPDFPageText
- PDFKit.Open
- Vision.RecognizeText
Example Databases
Blog Entries
This function checks for a license.
Created 18th August 2014, last changed 14th February 2025
