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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.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

'  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

set pdf = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Pdf")
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/code_block.pdf")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
set jsonOut = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

success = pdf.ExtractText("markdown",json,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---- default (code: true) ----") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonOut.StringOf("markdown")) & "</pre>"

success = json.UpdateBool("code",0)
success = pdf.ExtractText("markdown",json,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---- code: false ----") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonOut.StringOf("markdown")) & "</pre>"

'  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.

%>
</body>
</html>