Cannot select specific parts of PDF using Adobe Reader DC 19

[mtu (Mike)]

I am trying to follow the documentation and video tutorials in order to scrape PDF invoices for certain fields, but cannot get the UiPath explorer to recognize the single parts of the PDF documents. These documents are not scanned and I can highlight sperate text parts in Adobe and I have followed all the other forum posts that recommend changing setting, but nothing works.

I just read in the documentation that

Please note that, in Adobe Reader DC 19, selecting UI elements from untagged PDF files is not supported . You need to tag PDF files for interactive UI element selection to function.

This seems to suggest that I need to use a different version of Adobe in order to get this scraping to work easily with selectors that are accessible by UiPath. Is that correct or is there some other settings I need to change?

I am using Adobe 19.0.10.20099.60178
UiPath Studio 2018.4.4

[ovi (Viorela Preda)]

Hi @mtu

First, tag the pdf: To tag a PDF in Acrobat, choose Tools > Accessibility > Add Tags To Document.
Then follow the steps in the documentation and the elements should become recognizable.

[mtu (Mike)]

We ended up getting Adobe reader DC 18. This was the only solution we could find other than manually tagging PDFs, which would not be an option for us.

DC 19 is completely useless if tagging PDFs is the only way to use selectors. We are trying to process AP invoices so we need to be able to access invoice details right after we get the invoices from an email inbox. Hopefully, DC 18 will work well going forward or UiPath can work with Adobe to make sure future versions work well. I would hate to create automation projects in UiPath for processing invoices only for it to break down the road if Adobe 18 ever has issues.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Good news is that more improvements in this regard are coming your way. It might take some time, but the PDF experience will definitely be improved