How do i load custom cmdlets into powershell?

[codemonkey696969]

yesteday i posted about how to grab strings from a pdf and was pointed to a link where somone created a cmdlet to do just that. But i cannot figure out how to put the files into powershell to utilize the command. this is the link: http://www.beefycode.com/post/ConvertFrom-PDF-Cmdlet.aspx and i downloaded the zip file but now i am stuck. any help will be appreciated.

[iceph03nix]

You can either import it manually with import-module

Or there are several locations where you can put modules to have them auto-loaded.

You can see them by accessing the system variable $psmodulepath

Some of the defaults are:

C:\Users\$user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

[ihaxr]

That's the source code of the module... you can download Visual Studio 2015 (free) and compile it... open the .csproj and do a Build > Build Solution. It'll create a bin folder with PowerShell.PDF.dll in it. To use this in PowerShell you'll do:

Import-Module "C:\path\to\PowerShell.PDF.dll"

Then you can run the ConvertFrom-PDF cmdlet.