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Code Blocks and Code Spans in PDF to Markdown

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Demonstrates how monospaced text is converted by the "markdown" operation: a monospaced block becomes a fenced code block and a monospaced run inside a sentence becomes a code span. Set "code" to false to treat it as ordinary text. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

;  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
;  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

;  The PDF used in this example is available at code_block.pdf

$oPdf = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Pdf")
$bSuccess = $oPdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/code_block.pdf")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oPdf.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJsonOut = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")

$bSuccess = $oPdf.ExtractText("markdown",$oJson,$oJsonOut)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oPdf.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("---- default (code: true) ----" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($oJsonOut.StringOf("markdown") & @CRLF)

$oJson.UpdateBool("code",False)
$bSuccess = $oPdf.ExtractText("markdown",$oJson,$oJsonOut)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oPdf.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("---- code: false ----" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($oJsonOut.StringOf("markdown") & @CRLF)

;  Sample output:

;  ---- default (code: true) ----
;  <!-- page 1 -->
;  
;  # Extracting Text
;  
;  Load the PDF and call `ExtractText` with the operation and an options object. The result is returned as JSON:
;  
;  ```
;  new Pdf pdf;
;  success = pdf.LoadFile("report.pdf");
;  new JsonObject json;
;  new JsonObject jsonOut;
;  success = pdf.ExtractText("text",json,jsonOut);
;  println jsonOut.StringOf("text");
;  ```
;  
;  An empty options object extracts every page with the default clean-up. Set `pages` to limit the extraction.
;  ---- code: false ----
;  <!-- page 1 -->
;  
;  # Extracting Text
;  
;  Load the PDF and call ExtractText with the operation and an options object. The result is returned as JSON:
;  
;  new Pdf pdf; success = pdf.LoadFile("report.pdf"); new JsonObject json; new JsonObject jsonOut; success = pdf.ExtractText("text",json,jsonOut); println jsonOut.StringOf("text");
;  
;  An empty options object extracts every page with the default clean-up. Set pages to limit the extraction.