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ByteScout Cloud API Server – Document Parser API – PHP – Parse Uploaded File Asynchronously

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How to parse uploaded file asynchronously for document parser API in PHP and ByteScout Cloud API Server

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MultiPageTable-template1.yml

      
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

program.php

      
<!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. // Get submitted form data $apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api // 1. RETRIEVE THE PRESIGNED URL TO UPLOAD THE FILE. // * If you already have the direct PDF file link, go to the step 3. // Create URL $url = "https://localhost/file/upload/get-presigned-url" . "?name=" . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] . "&contenttype=application/octet-stream"; // Create request $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey)); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // 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); // Get URL to use for the file upload $uploadFileUrl = $json["presignedUrl"]; // Get URL of uploaded file to use with later API calls $uploadedFileUrl = $json["url"]; // 2. UPLOAD THE FILE TO CLOUD. $localFile = $_FILES["fileInput"]["tmp_name"]; $fileHandle = fopen($localFile, "r"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $uploadFileUrl); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("content-type: application/octet-stream")); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fileHandle); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localFile)); // Execute request curl_exec($curl); fclose($fileHandle); if (curl_errno($curl) == 0) { $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($status_code == 200) { // Read all template texts $templateText = file_get_contents($_FILES["fileTemplate"]["tmp_name"]); // 3. PARSE UPLOADED PDF DOCUMENT ParseDocument($apiKey, $uploadedFileUrl, $templateText); } else { // Display request error echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; } } else { // Display CURL error echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl); } } else { // Display service reported error echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; } curl_close($curl); } else { // Display CURL error echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl); } function ParseDocument($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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