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torus
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2 years ago

get text from first page of pdf file with 'PDF to Text'

I need to verify content on the first page of a pdf document. I cannot just simply extract text from the entire document. The document is to large and attempting to read all text will end up in an er...
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torus
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Yes, I just verified that the below code will fail at line, " LastResult = PDF.ConvertToText(path);"

 

function TestExtractTextFromLargePdfFile()
{
  var Var1, LastResult, LastResult1;
  Var1 = "";
  //Extracts plain text from a *.pdf document.
  var path = "C:\\temp\\LargeFile.pdf";
  LastResult = PDF.ConvertToText(path);
  Var1 = LastResult;
  //Writes the specified string to a text file. 
  LastResult1 = aqFile.WriteToTextFile("C:\\Users\\chk\\Documents\\TestCompleteOutputFile.txt", Var1, aqFile.ctUTF8);
}

 the error message is, "The OCR service failed. Request Entity Too large."

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    torus
    Contributor
    2 years ago

    Well, I really need to get the version and the date from the first page to make sure we are pointing to the correct version of the pdf document. I was using the OCR which was working pretty good until (I'm pretty sure) our security team put some software on our machines that seems to be blocking OCR for *.pdf being viewed via a browser. I'll work more on trying to get the OCR to work again and report back. Thanks so much Marsha_R for the guidance. I mainly wanted to know if there was a way to extract text from a single page of a pdf with the TC pdf tool and it looks like probably not. Thanks again for the answer.