Document Toggle Searchable with PDF.co API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Document Toggle Searchable with the PDF.co API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Document Toggle Searchable action
1. Connect your PDF.co account
2. Configure URL
3. Configure Set Searchable
4. Optional- Configure HTTP Username
5. Optional- Configure HTTP Password
6. Optional- Configure Lang
7. Optional- Configure Pages
8. Optional- Configure PDF Password
9. Optional- Configure Async
10. Optional- Configure Name
11. Optional- Configure Expiration
12. Optional- Configure Profiles
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Document Toggle Searchable on PDF.co

Description:Turn PDF and scanned JPG, PNG images into text-searchable PDF or text-unsearchable. [See docs here](https://apidocs.pdf.co/11-pdf-make-text-searchable-or-unsearchable)

Version:0.0.2

Key:pdf_co-document-toggle-searchable

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Code#

import app from "../../pdf_co.app.mjs";

export default {
  name: "Document Toggle Searchable",
  description: "Turn PDF and scanned JPG, PNG images into text-searchable PDF or text-unsearchable. [See docs here](https://apidocs.pdf.co/11-pdf-make-text-searchable-or-unsearchable)",
  key: "pdf_co-document-toggle-searchable",
  version: "0.0.2",
  annotations: {
    destructiveHint: false,
    openWorldHint: true,
    readOnlyHint: false,
  },
  type: "action",
  props: {
    app,
    url: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "url",
      ],
    },
    setSearchable: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Set Searchable",
      description: "Select if the document should be searchable.",
    },
    httpusername: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "httpusername",
      ],
    },
    httppassword: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "httppassword",
      ],
    },
    lang: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "lang",
      ],
    },
    pages: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "pages",
      ],
    },
    password: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "password",
      ],
    },
    async: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "async",
      ],
    },
    name: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "name",
      ],
    },
    expiration: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "expiration",
      ],
    },
    profiles: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "profiles",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const payload = {
      url: this.url,
      httpusername: this.httpusername,
      httppassword: this.httppassword,
      lang: this.lang,
      pages: this.pages,
      password: this.password,
      async: this.async,
      name: this.name,
      expiration: this.expiration,
      profiles: this.profiles,
    };
    const endpoint = this.setSearchable ?
      "/pdf/makesearchable"
      : "/pdf/makeunsearchable";
    const response = await this.app.genericRequest(
      $,
      payload,
      endpoint,
    );

    const isSetSearchable = this.setSearchable ?
      "searchable"
      : "unsearchable";
    $.export("$summary", `Successfully changed the PDF to ${isSetSearchable}`);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
PDF.co	`app`	`app`	This component uses the PDF.co app.
URL	`url`	`string`	URL to the source file. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox and from built-in PDF.co files storage.
Set Searchable	`setSearchable`	`boolean`	Select if the document should be searchable.
HTTP Username	`httpusername`	`string`	HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.
HTTP Password	`httppassword`	`string`	HTTP auth password if required to access source url.
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).
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.
PDF Password	`password`	`string`	Password of PDF file.
Async	`async`	`boolean`	Runs processing asynchronously. Returns JobId.
Name	`name`	`string`	File name for generated output.
Expiration	`expiration`	`integer`	Output link expiration in minutes. Default is 60 (i.e. 60 minutes or 1 hour).
Profiles	`profiles`	`any`	Use this parameter to set additional configuration for fine tuning and extra options. Explore PDF.co for profile examples.

Authentication#

PDF.co uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your PDF.co account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to PDF.co APIs in both code and no-code steps.

About PDF.co#

PDF.co is a API platform for data extraction from PDF, spreadsheets, barcodes. 300+ integrations supported.

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