ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF To Text API – cURL – Convert PDF To Text From URL

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ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF To Text API – cURL – Convert PDF To Text From URL

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How to convert PDF to text from URL for PDF to text API in cURL with ByteScout Cloud API Server

Learn to write code convert PDF to text from URL for PDF to text API in cURL: Simple How To Tutorial

These source code samples are listed and grouped by their programming language and functions they use. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist PDF to text API in cURL. 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!.

CURL code snippet like this for ByteScout Cloud API Server works best when you need to quickly implement PDF to text API in your cURL application. Follow the tutorial and copy – paste code for cURL into your project’s code editor. Use of ByteScout Cloud API Server in cURL is also described in the documentation given along with the product.

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ConvertPdfToTextFromUrl.cmd

      @echo off

:: Path of the cURL executable
set CURL="curl.exe"

:: Direct URL of source PDF file.
set SOURCE_FILE_URL=https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-text/sample.pdf
:: Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. Leave empty for all pages. Example: '0,2-5,7-'.
set PAGES=
:: PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents.
set PASSWORD=
:: Result TXT file name
set RESULT_FILE_NAME=result.txt


:: 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.

:: Prepare URL for `PDF To Text` API call
set QUERY="https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/text?name=%RESULT_FILE_NAME%&password=%PASSWORD%&pages=%PAGES%&url=%SOURCE_FILE_URL%"

:: Perform request and save response to a file
%CURL% -# -X GET %QUERY% >response.json

:: Display the response
type response.json

:: Use any convenient way to parse JSON response and get URL of generated file(s)


echo.
pause