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PDF Get Text

PDF Get Text

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Type: pdf-get-text  ·  Package: PDF Activities v1.0.0  ·  Output: string

Extracts all text from a PDF, joining the content of all its pages into a single string. It is the central activity to read documents: invoices, contracts, reports — and then extract concrete data with regular expressions.

How it works

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Reads the text from each page of the PDF and concatenates it, separating the pages with separator (by default, two line breaks). Returns the result as a string.

Required parameters

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ParameterEditorDescription
pathexpressionPDF file path.

Optional parameters

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ParameterEditorDescription
separatorexpressionSeparator between pages. By default, two line breaks.

Output

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Returns a string with all the PDF text.

Example

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Extract the total and number of an invoice:

PDF Get Text   path = = rutaFactura   → output: texto
Set Variable   name = numero   value = = regexFind(texto, "FAC-\d+")
Set Variable   name = total    value = = regexFind(texto, "Total:\s*\$?([\d.,]+)")
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