Split PDF on string matching

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Hi All,

I need you help.

Scenario-
I have to split the pdf on matching string, lets say I have a pdf where there is a sentence which is common in every pdf file i am processing, i wanna split that pdf once the sentence is matching and create a new pdf keep all the pages upto that only.

As the number of page is not fixed in the pdf so i have no option to hardcore the page number.

Thank you

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Hi Indrajit,

If you want to split pdf text with specific string,
then you can try
Split(pdfText,splitString)

thank you
Debakanta

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Thank you @Debakanta_Mahanta , here i wanna split the pdf based on string matching.

Eg- lets se I have a pdf with 10 pages and the string I am trying to match ‘Abcd’ in on page 4, then what i wanna do is to generate a new pdf keeping pages from 1 -4 and drop the rest.

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Hi @indrajit.shah ,

Using the Highlighted Activities below from the PDF Activities Package, we should be able to achieve your requirement.
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  1. Use Get PDF Page Count Activity.
  • Retrieve the Page Count of the PDF Pages, Store the output in a integer variable say pageCount
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  1. Using a For Each Activity we can Loop through Each Page of PDF and Extract it’s contents.
  • Using a Read PDF Text Activity, extract the text data.
  • Using an If Activity, Check if the Page data contains matching string.
  • If it does , save the Page No. to another variable, PageNo, Break out of the Loop.
  • If it does not, update page no. as -1
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  1. Next, Out of the For Loop, Use an If Activity and Check Page No is not Equal to -1. And then Extract the Pages of the PDF using Extract PDF Page Range Activity
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This should provide you with the PDF file upto the Matching String value.

Let us know if you are facing any difficulties.