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PDF to excel API in PowerShell and ByteScout Cloud API Server

PDF to excel API in PowerShell

An easy to understand guide to learn how to PDF to excel API in PowerShell. ByteScout Cloud API Server was made to help with PDF to excel 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 rich and prolific sample source code in PowerShell for ByteScout Cloud API Server contains various functions and options you should do calling the API to implement PDF to excel API. Just copy and paste this PowerShell sample code to your PowerShell application’s code editor, add a reference to ByteScout Cloud API Server (if you haven’t added yet) and you are ready to go! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample PowerShell codes to add PDF to excel API functions using ByteScout Cloud API Server in PowerShell.

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ConvertPdfToXlsFromUrlAsynchronously.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. # Cloud API asynchronous "PDF To XLS" job example. # Allows to avoid timeout errors when processing huge or scanned PDF documents. # Direct URL of source PDF file. $SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-excel/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 XLS file name $DestinationFile = ".\result.xls" # (!) Make asynchronous job $Async = $true # Sample profile that sets advanced conversion options. # Advanced options are properties of XLSExtractor class from ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK used in the back-end: # https://cdn.bytescout.com/help/BytescoutPDFExtractorSDK/html/2712c05b-9674-5253-df76-2a31ed055afd.htm $Profiles = '{ "profiles": [ { "profile1": { "RichTextFormatting": false, "PageToWorksheet": false } } ] }' # Prepare URL for `PDF To XLS` API call $query = "https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/xls?name={0}&password={1}&pages={2}&url={3}&async={4}&profiles={5}" -f ` $(Split-Path $DestinationFile -Leaf), $Password, $Pages, $SourceFileUrl, $Async, $Profiles $query = [System.Uri]::EscapeUriString($query) try { # Execute request $jsonResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $query if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) { # Asynchronous job ID $jobId = $jsonResponse.jobId # URL of generated XLS file that will available after the job completion $resultFileUrl = $jsonResponse.url # Check the job status in a loop. do { $statusCheckUrl = "https://localhost/job/check?jobid=" + $jobId $jsonStatus = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $statusCheckUrl # Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes) Write-Host "$(Get-date): $($jsonStatus.status)" if ($jsonStatus.status -eq "success") { # Download XLS file Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile $DestinationFile -Uri $resultFileUrl Write-Host "Generated XLS file saved as `"$($DestinationFile)`" file." break } elseif ($jsonStatus.status -eq "working") { # Pause for a few seconds Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 } else { Write-Host $jsonStatus.status break } } while ($true) } else { # Display service reported error Write-Host $jsonResponse.message } } catch { # Display request error Write-Host $_.Exception }

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@echo off powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\ConvertPdfToXlsFromUrlAsynchronously.ps1" echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel% pause

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