PDF FIle Read from Blueprism Object

[virendersingh]

Hello team,   My Requirement, We have to used the PDF file data to further other application process:-   1) Can we read the PDF data?? Except the Copy- Paste or Clipboard functionality. The reason behind that the PDF file is almost 17 pages. 2) Any Blueprism VBO available for PDF Read Data?? 3) Any way how we read the PDF file data Except copy & paste.   Please help for me for short out this issue. It's production issue, Initially Copy-past functionally working there, but right the functionally disabled in application so require to fix this issue in production environment, Right Now our Bot is block Situation.   So please suggest us the solution for the same. Thanks in advance. 

[ashish.easow]

Unfortunately the others are not something which I believe can be implemented without thorough checks   1. Copy paste - whch is blocked in production 2. Paid softwre - Rather than adobe reader which is free, the business version of the software has api's available to export the content from the pdf. 3. if data is structured and navigation and identification easy- use SA 4. If data is unstructured - use OCR - like Abbyy 

[virendersingh]

Hi Ashish,   Thanks for the Help. Can you give me the summaries information about the below points:-   3. if data is structured and navigation and identification easy- use SA - What's the mean of SA?? 4. If data is unstructured - use OCR - like Abbyy . OCR are not 100% correct from my understanding. Correct me if I am wrong. OCR also the paid ones.    Please give me yours's suggestions.    

[AmiBarrett]

There are command-line tools such as pdftotext that can be leveraged ( http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html ), but it may produce similar results. Alternatively, if it's form data, you can use one of the free versions of PDFill ( http://www.pdfill.com/pdftool_form_field.html ) to get the fields and values into various formats via command-line.