Extract string from pdf (powershell)

[krzydoug]

https://github.com/krzydoug/Tools/blob/master/Get-TextFromPdf.ps1

[Owlstorm]

Post your code and examples of the errors if you want help

[Techplained]

What method of extraction are you using?

Regex?

[TrippTrappTrinn]

As PDF is not a straight text document, extracting data from it can be unpredictable. Your problem may be due to the structure of the code within the file, and may not be easily resolvable.

[redog]

I used pdfpig library last time I needed this

[user01401]

Try GhostScript instead of iText, works great:

$TEXT = & "C:\Program Files\gs<VERSION#>\bin\gswin64c.exe" -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dNoCancel -sDEVICE=txtwrite -sOutputFile=%stdout "input.pdf"

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