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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. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\JsonObject;
use Chilkat2\Pdf;

// 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

$pdf = new Pdf();
try {
    $pdf->LoadFile('qa_data/pdf/code_block.pdf');

    $json = new JsonObject();
    $jsonOut = new JsonObject();

    $pdf->ExtractText('markdown', $json, $jsonOut);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "---- default (code: true) ----\n";
echo $jsonOut->StringOf('markdown'), "\n";

$json->UpdateBool('code', false);
try {
    $pdf->ExtractText('markdown', $json, $jsonOut);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "---- code: false ----\n";
echo $jsonOut->StringOf('markdown'), "\n";

// 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.