Find a sequence of numbers in a pdf

[crocadoodledoo]

Hello.

I want to be able to find a sequence of ten numbers in a pdf. I was thinking of reading through each character of the pdf and using an if statement with the isNaN function, however, I'm not sure if that's even possible because I don't know how to read each character in a pdf. If there is another method on how to do this, then that would be fine, too.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[MatLac]

You wish to find ANY sequence of 10 numbers or a particular sequence?

[try67]

Also, are these numbers joined to a single "word", or are they separated by

spaces/commas/hyphens/etc.?

[crocadoodledoo]

It's formatted like...

1234567891

And I want to get the sequence as it is in the pdf.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Use a loop to iterate over all the words in all the pages in the file (using the getPageNthWord and the getPageNumWords methods of the Document object), and then a simple Regular Expression to check if it's a 10-digit number. Something like this:

loop1:
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{10}$/.test(word)) {
            console.println("Found it: " + word);
            break loop1;
        }
    }
}