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Read PDF Text

UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText

Description​

Reads all characters from a specified PDF file and stores them in a string variable.

Project compatibility​

Windows-Legacy | Windows

Configuration​

Designer panel​

  • FileName - The path of the PDF file to be read. Only String variables and strings are supported.

Properties panel​

File

  • FileName - The path of the PDF file to be read. Only String variables and strings are supported.
  • Password - The password of the PDF file, if necessary. Only String variables and strings are supported.

Input

  • PreserveFormatting - If selected, this option maintains the formatting of the file after the extraction is completed. The default value is False.
  • Range - The range of pages that you want to read. You can specify a single page (e.g. "7"), a range of pages (e.g. "7-12"), or a complex range, (e.g. "2-5, 7, 15-End" or "All"). Only string variables and strings are supported. The default value is "All".

Output

  • Text - The extracted string. This field supports only String variables.

Common

  • DisplayName - The display name of the activity.

Misc

  • Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.
    note

    The Read PDF Text activity extracts the raw text from a PDF file, without applying any extraction algorithms and cannot be used with Document Understanding activities.

Example of using the Read PDF Text activity​

Visit Read PDF files to check how the Read PDF Text activity is used in an example that incorporates multiple activities.