JavaScript search or find or get a number or number string on a page.

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December 8, 2022
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I am looking to search a pdf using javascript to find a certain number, the index of a number or anything that would get a number string on a PDF. The closest thing I have found is "this.getPageNthWord" but that cannot get numbers. Any help would be appreciated.

Correct answer try67

OK. Well, this code will print out all the words in the file with a digit in them (so even "1a" or "abc3xyz"):

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
	for (var i=0; i<numWords; i++) {
		var word = this.getPageNthWord(p,i,true);
		if (/\d/.test(word)) console.println(word);
	}
}

try67

Braniac

What do you want to do with these numbers, once they are found?

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Connor26190737hzvhAuthor

New Participant

add them to a populated email but I know how to do that already

try67Correct answer

Braniac

OK. Well, this code will print out all the words in the file with a digit in them (so even "1a" or "abc3xyz"):

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
	for (var i=0; i<numWords; i++) {
		var word = this.getPageNthWord(p,i,true);
		if (/\d/.test(word)) console.println(word);
	}
}

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Braniac

Numbers in a page, words on a page, symbols on a page. These are all characters of the same kind. getPageNthWord gets groups of characters, combined by guesswork into "words". What difficulty do you face reading strings of digits as numbers?

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Connor26190737hzvhAuthor

New Participant

I have a string of numbers on the page that was imported from using prepare forms "topComponent" feature. I would like to get the number string from off the page and use it in my JavaScript but when I use "this.getPageNthWord" it just skips over the number string completely.