Addition of in-built PDF Automation actions

[JeevanR]

There are a lot of companies relying on the digital worker to get data from invoices, other PDF documents and there are no in built actions available for pdf automation, which are present in other RPA softwares which they are taking advantage, i would be really helpful if a set of actions are added to Blue prism which deals with the PDF automation.

[AmyTsaousi]

Hi Jeevan, 

Thanks for submitting your idea. Before we can consider moving your idea into under consideration status, we need more information. Can you let us know what features you are looking for? Is it PDF readers? Is it data extraction from PDFs? 

Thanks, 
Amy

[AmyTsaousi]

Hi Jeevan, 
I'd like to understand more about the idea you've submitted before we can consider moving your idea to the under consideration status. Can you let us know what specific features you are looking for? 

Just to let you know, if we don't hear back from you within the next 30 days we won't be able to route your idea further. 

Thanks,
Amy

[JeevanR]

Hi Amy,

Thanks for the response, I will elaborate on the idea 

• There are no pre-built VBOs for extracting text, removing passwords, saving a pdf, etc that we get with the blue prism application.
• I found some VBOs in DX but they have limited functionality and some don't even support BP-7.0.
• It would be great if we get a dedicated VBO for these pdf actions in-built so that it will be more reliable and helpful.

Hope this idea will be useful...

Regards,
Jeevan

[AmyTsaousi]

Hi Jeevan, Thank you for your additional information. Good news! The team has reassessed your idea and therefore I've updated the status to Under Consideration. You can check for additional updates here as it progresses through the process.

All the best,

Amy

[robert.nicklin]

Hi @JeevanR,

Thanks for taking the time to raise an idea.

Given that Blue Prism Enterprise has the ability to extract text from images and business applications using Surface Automation or Smart Vision, I would argue that what this idea captures is already provided. For PDFs that have variable, but still structured, datasets, we provide Decipher for more robust IDP use cases. At this time, there is no plan to incorporate Decipher capabilities directly into the core product, so this is likely to remain the recommended approach to achieving this outcome for now.

As a result of this update, I'm going to mark this idea as Not Planned.

Regards,

Rob