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Search Text From PDF - Salesforce

PDF Search Text sample in Salesforce demonstrating ‘Search Text From PDF’

PDFTextSearch.cls
public class PDFTextSearch {

    String API_KEY = 'YOUR_PDF_CO_API_KEY_HERE';
    String endPointUrl = 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/find';

    public void searchPdfText() {
        try {
            String jsonBody = '{ "async": "false", "encrypt": "false", "url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-to-text/sample.pdf", "searchString": "Invoice Date \\d+/\\d+/\\d+", "regexSearch": "true", "name": "output", "pages": "0-", "inline": "true", "wordMatchingMode": "", "password": "" }';
            Http http = new Http();
            HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest();
            request.setHeader('x-api-key', API_KEY);
            request.setEndpoint(endPointUrl);
            request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
            request.setMethod('POST');
            request.setBody(jsonBody);
            HttpResponse response = http.send(request);

            if(response.getStatusCode() == 200) {
                System.debug('PDF Text Search: ' + response.getBody());
            } else {
                System.debug('Error Response ' + response.getBody());
                System.Debug(' Status ' + response.getStatus());
                System.Debug(' Status Code' + response.getStatusCode());
                System.Debug(' Response String' + response.toString());
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            String errorBody = 'Message: ' + ex.getMessage() + ' -- Cause: ' + ex.getCause() + ' -- Stacktrace: ' + ex.getStackTraceString();
            System.Debug(errorBody);
        }
    }
}

PDFTextSearchTest.cls
@isTest
private class PDFTextSearchTest {

    static testMethod void testSearchPdfText() {
        Test.startTest();
        Test.setMock(HttpCalloutMock.class, new PDFTextSearchTest.PDFTextSearchMock());
        PDFTextSearch pdfTextSearch = new PDFTextSearch();
        pdfTextSearch.searchPdfText();
        Test.stopTest();
    }

    public class PDFTextSearchMock implements HttpCalloutMock {
        public HttpResponse respond(HTTPRequest req) {
            HttpResponse res = new HttpResponse();
            String testBody = '{"success":true,"foundTextItems":[{"text":"Invoice Date 12/04/2019","page":0,"x":30,"y":25,"width":200,"height":15}],"error":false,"status":200}';
            res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
            res.setBody(testBody);
            res.setStatusCode(200);
            return res;
        }
    }
}

PDF.co Web API: the Web API with a set of tools for documents manipulation, data conversion, data extraction, splitting and merging of documents. Includes image recognition, built-in OCR, barcode generation and barcode decoders to decode bar codes from scans, pictures and pdf.

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