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How to add text and images to PDF in PowerShell with ByteScout Cloud API Server

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to add text and images to PDF in PowerShell

The documentation is designed for a specific purpose to help you to apply the features on your side. ByteScout Cloud API Server is the ready to deploy Web API Server that can be deployed in less than thirty minutes into your own in-house Windows server (no Internet connnection is required to process data!) or into private cloud server. Can store data on in-house local server based storage or in Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Processing data solely on the server using built-in ByteScout powered engine, no cloud services are used to process your data! and you can use it to add text and images to PDF with PowerShell.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Cloud API Server for PowerShell plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to add text and images to PDF. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for PowerShell below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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AddTextToExistingPDF.ps1

      # Direct URL of source PDF file.
$SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-edit/sample.pdf"

#Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. Leave empty for all pages. Example: '0,2-5,7-'.
$Pages = ""

# PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents.
$Password = ""

# Destination PDF file name
$DestinationFile = "./result.pdf"

# Text annotation params
$Type = "annotation";
$X = 400;
$Y = 600;
$Text = "APPROVED";
$FontName = "Times New Roman";
$FontSize = 24;
$Color = "FF0000";

$resultFileName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($DestinationFile)

# Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost".
# If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url.

# * Add Text *
# Prepare request to `PDF Edit` API endpoint
$query = "https://localhost/pdf/edit/add?name=$($resultFileName)&password=$($Password)&pages=$($Pages)&url=$($SourceFileUrl)&type=$($Type)&x=$($X)&y=$($Y)&text=$($Text)&fontname=$($FontName)&size=$($FontSize)&color=$($Color)";
$query = [System.Uri]::EscapeUriString($query)

try {
    # Execute request
    $jsonResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get  -Uri $query

    if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) {
        # Get URL of generated output file
        $resultFileUrl = $jsonResponse.url
        
        # Download output file
        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $resultFileUrl -OutFile $DestinationFile

        Write-Host "Generated PDF saved to '$($DestinationFile)' file."
    }
    else {
        # Display service reported error
        Write-Host $jsonResponse.message
    }
}
catch {
    # Display request error
    Write-Host $_.Exception
}

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run.bat

      @echo off

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\AddTextToExistingPDF.ps1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause