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Document Toggle Searchable

Turn PDF and scanned JPG, PNG images into text-searchable PDF or text-unsearchable. See docs here
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IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's PDF.co account once, then configure and run Document Toggle Searchable from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "pdf_co-document-toggle-searchable",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    pdf_co: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    url: "URL",
    setSearchable: true,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Document Toggle Searchable inputs
Property Type Description
url URL string
URL to the source file. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox and from built-in PDF.co files storage.
Required
setSearchable Set Searchable boolean
Select if the document should be searchable.
Required
httpusername HTTP Username string
HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.
Optional
httppassword HTTP Password string
HTTP auth password if required to access source url.
Optional
lang Lang string
Sets language for OCR (text from image) to use for scanned PDF, PNG, JPG documents input when extracting text. Default is “eng”. Other languages are also supported: deu, spa, chi_sim, jpn and many others (full list of supported OCR languages is (here)[https://apidocs.pdf.co/kb/OCR/list-of-supported-languages-for-ocr]. You can also use 2 languages simultaneously like this: eng+deu or jpn+kor (any combination).
Optional
pages Pages string
For ALL pages just leave this param empty. Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. the very first page starts at 0 (zero). To set a range use the dash -, for example: 0,2-5,7-. To set a range from index to the last page use range like this: 2- (from page #3 as the index starts at zero and till the end of the document). Example: 0,2-5,7- means first page, then 3rd page to 6th page, and then the range from 8th (index = 7) page till the end of the document.
Optional
password PDF Password string
Password of PDF file.
Optional
async Async boolean
Runs processing asynchronously. Returns JobId.
Optional
name Name string
File name for generated output.
Optional
expiration Expiration integer
Output link expiration in minutes. Default is 60 (i.e. 60 minutes or 1 hour).
Optional
profiles Profiles any
Use this parameter to set additional configuration for fine tuning and extra options. Explore PDF.co for profile examples.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
pdf_co-document-toggle-searchable
Version
0.0.2
App
PDF.co
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes