ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF To Excel API – JavaScript – Convert PDF To XLSX in JQuery

Home
/
Articles
/
ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF To Excel API – JavaScript – Convert PDF To XLSX in JQuery

printable version:
ByteScout-Cloud-API-Server-JavaScript-Convert-PDF-To-XLSX-in-JQuery.pdf

How to convert PDF to XLSX in jquery for PDF to excel API in JavaScript and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Step By Step Instructions on how to convert PDF to XLSX in jquery for PDF to excel API in JavaScript

This page displays the step-by-step instructions and algorithm of how to convert PDF to XLSX in jquery and how to apply it in your application. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist PDF to excel API in JavaScript. 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!.

Use the code displayed below in your application to save a lot of time on writing and testing code. This sample code in JavaScript is all you need. Just copy-paste it to the code editor, then add a reference to ByteScout Cloud API Server and you are ready to try it! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample JavaScript codes to implement PDF to excel API using ByteScout Cloud API Server.

ByteScout Cloud API Server – free trial version is available on our website. Also, there are other code samples to help you with your JavaScript application included into trial version.

On-demand (REST Web API) version:
Web API (on-demand version)

On-premise offline SDK for Windows:
60 Day Free Trial (on-premise)

converter.js

      // 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.

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#resultBlock").hide();
    $("#errorBlock").hide();
    $("#result").attr("href", '').html('');
});
 
$(document).on("click", "#submit", function () {
    $("#resultBlock").hide();
    $("#errorBlock").hide();
    $("#inlineOutput").text(''); // inline output div
    $("#status").text(''); // status div
 
    var formData = $("#form input[type=file]")[0].files[0]; // file to upload
    var toType = $("#convertType").val(); // output type
    var isInline = $("#outputType").val() == "inline"; // if we need output as inline content or link to output file

    $("#status").html('Requesting presigned url for upload... &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="ajax-loader.gif" />');

    $.ajax({
        url: 'https://localhost/file/upload/get-presigned-url?name=test.pdf&contenttype=application/pdf&encrypt=true',
        type: 'GET',
        success: function (result) {    

            if (result['error'] === false) {
                var presignedUrl = result['presignedUrl']; // reading provided presigned url to put our content into
                var accessUrl = result['url']; // reading output url that will indicate uploaded file

                $("#status").html('Uploading... &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="ajax-loader.gif" />');

                $.ajax({
                    url: presignedUrl, // no api key is required to upload file
                    type: 'PUT',
                    headers: {'content-type': 'application/pdf'}, // setting to pdf type as we are uploading pdf file
                    data: formData,
                    processData: false,
                    success: function (result) {                               
                        
                        $("#status").html('Processing... &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="ajax-loader.gif" />');

                        $.ajax({
                            url: 'https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/'+toType+'?url='+ presignedUrl + '&encrypt=true&inline=' + isInline,
                            type: 'POST', 
                            success: function (result) { 

                                $("#status").text('done converting.');

                                // console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
                                
                                $("#resultBlock").show();

                                if (isInline)
                                {                                    
                                    $("#inlineOutput").text(result['body']);
                                }
                                else {
                                    $("#result").attr("href", result['url']).html(result['url']);
                                }
                                
                            }
                        });
                    },
                    error: function () {
                        $("#status").text('error');
                    }
                  });                
                }
            }
        });
});