ByteScout Premium 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 using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK in Powershell

The sample source codes on this page shows how to convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK in Powershell. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can be applied to convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK using Powershell.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly convert PDF to JSON with PDF extractor SDK in your Powershell application. Simply copy and paste in your Powershell project or application you and then run your app! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in Powershell.

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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()