ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF Splitting API – PowerShell – Split PDF From URL

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How to split PDF from URL for PDF splitting API in PowerShell and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Step By Step Instructions on how to split PDF from URL for PDF splitting API in PowerShell

Quick guide:Learn how to split PDF from URL in PowerShell. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist PDF splitting API in PowerShell. 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!.

This simple and easy to understand sample source code in PowerShell for ByteScout Cloud API Server contains different functions and options you should do calling the API to implement PDF splitting API. Follow the tutorial and copy – paste code for PowerShell into your project’s code editor. Easy to understand tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout Cloud API Server if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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SplitPdfFromUrl.ps1

      # 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 to split
$SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf"
# Comma-separated list of page numbers (or ranges) to process. Example: '1,3-5,7-'.
$Pages = "1-2,3-"

# Prepare URL for `Split PDF` API call
$query = "https://localhost/pdf/split?pages=$($Pages)&url=$($SourceFileUrl)"
$query = [System.Uri]::EscapeUriString($query)

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

    if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) {
        # Download generated PDF files
        $part = 1;
        foreach ($url in $jsonResponse.urls) {
            $localFileName = ".\part$($part).pdf"

            # Download PDF file
            Invoke-WebRequest  -OutFile $localFileName -Uri $url

            Write-Host "Downloaded `"$($localFileName)`""
            $part++
        }
    }
    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 "& .\SplitPdfFromUrl.ps1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause