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PDF Extract Text not working properly

lorenzwagner — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:00:03 GMT

Hello, i am currently encountering the following problem. I am using the PDF Management VBO and use it to extract text from a pdf. For this i am using an action stage and save the text to a data item. When i run the RPA, the tool has a succes in extracting the text (the data item indicates there a 200 characters), but whenever i open the data item and try to find out what the VBO found, there is no text in it. What could be the reason?

The PDF is readable and copyable.

Thanks in advance

Re: PDF Extract Text not working properly

Chakkravarthi_PR — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:20:56 GMT

Hi @lorenzwagner ,

Try to save the file as .txt and use Read text from file. Not an ideal way but if you could give more clarification about the PDF and text which is copied would be able to narrow it down.

Re: PDF Extract Text not working properly

Brigianakopec — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:55:24 GMT

To eliminate any document-specific issues, could you try extracting text from a simple, known-good PDF? If that works, the problem may be related to the format or content of the original PDF.

Re: PDF Extract Text not working properly

lorenzwagner — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:57:52 GMT

@Brigianakopec Thank you for your anwser. I opened the file with Acrobat and everything is perfectly copyable.

Re: PDF Extract Text not working properly

lorenzwagner — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:07:05 GMT

@Brigianakopec It currently looks something like this: