Utility – PDF
€499.00
VBO for PDF file processing designed for Blue Prism. No Adobe installation required. Business object allows to set and get text from PDF files, read file properties including signatures and images. Works also with password protected files.
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Description
Utility for PDF file processing (encrypted and unencrypted).
- No need to open the PDF document
- No need to have PDF reading software installed
- Supports password protected PDF documents (128-bit)
- Extract text from entire PDF document, selected pages or selected areas of pages
- Extract images from the PDF document
- Allows to insert text and images into the PDF documents
- Supports signatures extraction
The runmode of this business object is “background”
1.1 Extract Images
Extracts the images from a PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Page | In | Number | Optional. A page to extract images from |
| Password | In | Password | Password to PDF file |
| Folder | In | Text | Optional. A target folder to store images |
| Images | Out | Collection | Collection with images names and paths. |
1.2 Extract Pages
Extracts specific pages from a PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Pages | In | Text | Pages to extract from PDF file. E.g. “1-3” or “1,2,3” |
| Password | In | Password | Password to PDF file |
| Target File Path | In | Text | Optional. A target file to save the extarcted pages. Default value is the source file. |
1.3 Get File Properties
Gets a PDF file properties.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Optional. Password to PDF file |
| Author | Out | Text | Author of the PDF file |
| Creator | Out | Text | Creator of the PDF file |
| Producer | Out | Text | Producer of the PDF file |
| Subject | Out | Text | Subject of the PDF file |
| Title | Out | Text | Title of the PDF file |
| Keywords | Out | Text | Keywords |
| Page Count | Out | Number | Page Count |
| Encrypted | Out | Flag | Is file password protected? |
| Creation Date | Out | DateTime | Date of the file creation |
| Pages | Out | Collection | Additional pages info |
| Signatures | Out | Collection | Signatures in the PDF file |
| Images | Out | Collection | Images in the PDF file |
1.4 Get Text
Gets text from PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Optional. Password to PDF file |
| Page | In | Number | Page number |
| Text | Out | Text | Text from PDF file |
1.5 Get Text From Area
Gets text from the specific region of the PDF’s file page.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Optional. Password to PDF file |
| Page | In | Number | Page number |
| X | In | Number | Area start position x in inches |
| Y | In | Number | Are start position x in inches |
| Width | In | Number | Area width |
| Height | In | Number | Area height |
| Text | Out | Text | A text from the area |
1.6 Get Text Location
Returns a collection of locations of the text on the PDF’s file page.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Optional. Password to PDF file |
| Text | In | Text | Text to be located |
| Ignore Case | In | Flag | Optional. False by default |
| Location | Out | Collection | Collection of the text locations |
1.7 Remove Password
Removes a password protection from a PDF file. Support for 128-bit encryption.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Password to PDF file |
1.8 Set Image
Sets the image on the page of a PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Image | In | Image | Image to be set in the PDF file |
| Page | In | Number | A page to set the Image on |
| X | In | Number | Image start position x in inches |
| Y | In | Number | Image start position y in inches |
| Compress | In | Flag | Optional. Compress image |
1.9 Set Password
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Password | In | Password | Optional. Password to PDF file |
1.10 Set Rotation
Rotates the page of a PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Page | In | Number | A page of the PDF file to be rotated |
| Rotation | In | Number | Rotation degree |
1.11 Set Text
Sets text on the page of a PDF file.
| Parameter | Direction | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File Path | In | Text | PDF file path |
| Text | In | Text | Text to be set in the PDF file |
| Page | In | Number | A page to set the text on |
| X | In | Number | Text start position x in inches |
| Y | In | Number | Text start position y in inches |
| Font | In | Text | Text font |
| Font Size | In | Number | Text font size |
| Color | In | Text | Text color in hex |
| Spacing | In | Number | Text spacing |
| Rotation | In | Number | Text rotation |
