ByteScout PDF Suite – Powershell – Convert PDF To JSON with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout PDF Suite – Powershell – Convert PDF To JSON with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK in Powershell with ByteScout PDF Suite

This code in Powershell shows how to convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

ByteScout simple and easy to understand tutorials are planned to describe the code for both Powershell beginners and advanced programmers. ByteScout PDF Suite can convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from Powershell. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

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pdf-to-json.bat

      @echo off

if "%~1"=="" (
    echo -----------------------------------------------------
    echo Invalid parameter!
    echo -----------------------------------------------------
    echo Usage: pdf-to-json.bat folder_path
    echo Example: pdf-to-json.bat "c:\documents"
    echo -----------------------------------------------------
    if not "%NOPAUSE%"=="1" pause
    exit /b 1
)

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\pdf-to-json.ps1" "%1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause

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pdf-to-json.ps1

      Param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string] $InputFolder = ""
)

# Add reference to Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll assembly
Add-Type -Path "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\net4.00\Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll"

# Check input folder exists
if ((Test-Path $InputFolder) -eq $false) {
    Write-Host "Target folder does not exist." -ForegroundColor Red
    exit 0
}

# Create and activate JSONExtractor instance
$jsonExtractor = New-Object Bytescout.PDFExtractor.JSONExtractor
$jsonExtractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
$jsonExtractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

try {
    # Get PDF files from input folder
    $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $InputFolder -Recurse -Include "*.pdf"
    foreach ($file in $files) {
        Write-Host "Input file" $file.FullName
        # Construct output file name
        $jsonFileName = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($file.FullName, "json")
        Write-Host "  Output file" $jsonFileName
        # Load PDF document
        $jsonExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile($file.FullName)
        # Disable the formatting reconstruction
        $jsonExtractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = $false
        # Extract first page to JSON
        $jsonExtractor.SaveJSONToFile(0, $jsonFileName)
        # Reset extractor
        $jsonExtractor.Reset()
    }
}
catch {
    Write-Host $_.Exception.Message
}

$jsonExtractor.Dispose()