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templateName: Multipage Table Test
templateVersion: 4
templatePriority: 0
detectionRules:
keywords:
- Sample document with multi-page table
objects:
- name: total
objectType: field
fieldProperties:
fieldType: macros
expression: TOTAL{{Spaces}}({{Number}})
regex: true
dataType: decimal
- name: table1
objectType: table
tableProperties:
start:
expression: Item{{Spaces}}Description{{Spaces}}Price
regex: true
end:
expression: TOTAL{{Spaces}}{{Number}}
regex: true
row:
expression: '{{LineStart}}{{Spaces}}(?<itemNo>{{Digits}}){{Spaces}}(?<description>{{SentenceWithSingleSpaces}}){{Spaces}}(?<price>{{Number}}){{Spaces}}(?<qty>{{Digits}}){{Spaces}}(?<extPrice>{{Number}})'
regex: true
columns:
- name: itemNo
dataType: integer
- name: description
dataType: string
- name: price
dataType: decimal
- name: qty
dataType: integer
- name: extPrice
dataType: decimal
multipage: true
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document Parse Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// 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.
// Source PDF file
$uploadedFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/document-parser/MultiPageTable.pdf";
// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api
// Read all template texts
$templateText = file_get_contents($_FILES["fileTemplate"]["tmp_name"]);
// PARSE UPLOADED PDF DOCUMENT
ParseDocument($apiKey, $uploadedFileUrl, $templateText);
function ParseDocument($apiKey, $uploadedFileUrl, $templateText)
{
// (!) Make asynchronous job
$async = TRUE;
// Prepare URL for Document parser API call.
// See documentation: https://apidocs.pdf.co/?#1-pdfdocumentparser
$url = "https://localhost/pdf/documentparser";
// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["url"] = $uploadedFileUrl;
$parameters["template"] = $templateText;
$parameters["async"] = $async;
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
echo $result . "<br/>";
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if ($json["error"] == false)
{
// URL of generated JSON file that will available after the job completion
$resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
// Asynchronous job ID
$jobId = $json["jobId"];
// Check the job status in a loop
do
{
$status = CheckJobStatus($jobId, $apiKey); // Possible statuses: "working", "failed", "aborted", "success".
// Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes)
echo "<p>" . date(DATE_RFC2822) . ": " . $status . "</p>";
if ($status == "success")
{
// Display link to JSON file with information about parsed fields
echo "<div><h2>Parsing Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
break;
}
else if ($status == "working")
{
// Pause for a few seconds
sleep(3);
}
else
{
echo $status . "<br/>";
break;
}
}
while (true);
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
}
function CheckJobStatus($jobId, $apiKey)
{
$status = null;
// Create URL
$url = "https://localhost/job/check";
// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["jobid"] = $jobId;
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if ($json["error"] == false)
{
$status = $json["status"];
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
return $status;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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