UiPath PDF activities

Question

I am trying to read a PDF as text, and I can write it back with junk in it, which is fine as I have a parser component to get the bits I need.

My question is how can I read specific parts of the PDF and ignore the rest?

Answer 1

Well, in my opinion, what you can try is to use text scraping if your PDF is well formatted. But for doing this you need to open the PDF file and it must be visible for Native Scraping to work

PS: This works with Adobe Reader DC only if you have the right settings. Each time you open it again you have to open settings dialog. (Settings could be correct but it does not take them without opening the dialog)