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PDF Split By Text Search

Split PDF into multiple PDF files by text search (support regular expressions).

Available Methods

[POST] /pdf/split2 (split by text search)

Attributes
url required
URL to the source file. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox, and PDF.co built-in files storage. To upload files via API, Check out the Files Upload section.

Note: If you experience intermittent Too Many Requests or Access Denied errors, please try to add cache: to enable built-in URL caching. (e.g cache:https://example.com/file1.pdf)

For data security, you have the option to encrypt output files and decrypt input files. Learn more about user-controlled data encryption.
httpusername optional
HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.
httppassword optional
HTTP auth password if required to access source url.
searchString required
Text to search for on pages. Must be a string.
excludeKeyPages optional, false by default
Set to true if you want to exclude pages where text was found.
regexSearch optional, false by default
Set to true to enable regular expressions for the search string.
caseSensitive optional, false by default
Set to true to enable case-sensitive search.
lang optional
Set the language for OCR (text from image) to use for scanned PDF, PNG, and JPG documents input when extracting text.
The default is “eng”. Other languages are also supported: deu, spa, chi_sim, jpn, and many others (full list of supported OCR languages is here.
You can also use 2 languages simultaneously like this: eng+deu or jpn+kor (any combination).
async optional
Set async to true for long processes to run in the background, API will then return a jobId which you can use with /job/check endpoint to check the status of the process and retrieve the output while you can proceed with other tasks without waiting for this process to finish.
inline optional
Must be one of: true to return data as inline or false to return a link to the output file (default).
name optional
File name for the generated output. Must be a string.
expiration optional
Set the expiration time for the output link in minutes (default is 60 i.e 60 minutes or 1 hour), After this specified duration, any generated output file(s) will be automatically deleted from PDF.co temporary files storage. The maximum duration for link expiration varies based on your current subscription plan. Learn more

To store permanent input files (e.g. re-usable images, pdf templates, documents), Consider using PDF.co built-in Files Storage.
profiles optional
Use this parameter to set additional configurations for fine-tuning and extra options. Must be a string. Explore PDF.co knowledgebase for profile examples.
  • Method: POST
  • URL: /v1/pdf/split2

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Body payload

{
    "url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-split/multiple-invoices.pdf",
    "searchString": "invoice number",
    "excludeKeyPages": false,
    "regexSearch": false,
    "caseSensitive": false,
    "inline": true,
    "name": "invoice-extracted",
    "async": false
}

Example responses

/pdf/split2
{
    "urls": [
        "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.amazonaws.com/1e9a7f2c46834160903276716424382b/invoice-extracted_page1.pdf",
        "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.amazonaws.com/c976b9f89a2e460786a3d5c0deeeef67/invoice-extracted_page2.pdf",
        "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.amazonaws.com/c976b9f89a2e460786a3d5c0deeeef67/invoice-extracted_page3.pdf"
    ],
    "pageCount": 3,
    "error": false,
    "status": 200,
    "name": "invoice-extracted.pdf",
    "remainingCredits": 98441
}

Code Snippet

CURL
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/split2' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--data-raw '{
    "url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-split/multiple-invoices.pdf",
    "searchString": "invoice number",
    "excludeKeyPages": false,
    "regexSearch": false,
    "caseSensitive": false,
    "inline": true,
    "name": "invoice-extracted",
    "async": false
}'