Extract PDF Page Range by Regex in a Folder

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Hi,

I would like to extract the Appendix of a specific page from a few 500+pages PDFs in a Folder and save it as new PDFs.

In every PDF, the Appendix is on different pages. But there is specific wording to locate the pages using RegEx.

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I tried to assign a variable for the Regex, and put the “extractappendix” variable to range. However, there are errors. Can anyone help?

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Hi @cclemon

In Range you need to mention range like below

The image is an excerpt detailing the input field for specifying a range of pages to retrieve, allowing formats such as single pages, page ranges, complex ranges, or "All," with only string variables and strings being supported. (Captioned by AI)
The image is an excerpt detailing the input field for specifying a range of pages to retrieve, allowing formats such as single pages, page ranges, complex ranges, or "All," with only string variables and strings being supported. (Captioned by AI)921×157 16.4 KB

The image shows a UiPath workflow with an "Extract PDF Page Range" activity that has missing required arguments for 'File Name' and 'Output File Name'. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a UiPath workflow with an "Extract PDF Page Range" activity that has missing required arguments for 'File Name' and 'Output File Name'. (Captioned by AI)1456×761 34.7 KB

Regards,

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@cclemon

In this case, first you need to Read that pdf using Read PDF Text activity then by using your Specific word Regex get that page number then use Extract PDF Page Range activity

Regards,

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Hey @cclemon try to pass the specific range ..

cheers Happy Automation

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Hi @cclemon,

in this scenario read each page of PDF file and after reading each page check your condition with your key value, if condition passed then you can use output of that page data other wise continue until last page

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Thanks. Can I know how to get the page number in this case?

What activity should I assign?

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Should I use if else activity? Will it be possible for u to show me the activities? Thanks.

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Can you share a sample PDF

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@cclemon

Please check this on how to do the loop and read each page and check

The image shows a section of a UiPath workflow designed to read, process, and extract specific pages from a PDF file based on certain conditions, with an error indicating that a required 'File Name' argument was not provided. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a section of a UiPath workflow designed to read, process, and extract specific pages from a PDF file based on certain conditions, with an error indicating that a required 'File Name' argument was not provided. (Captioned by AI)958×702 39.9 KB

cheers

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Hi @Anil_G

For the condition field, does it work to enter ExtractedPDFText Contains Regex?
Also, may I know where does the “currentNumber.ToString” in the Range field comes from?

I am a beginner, sorry for asking dumb questions :sweat_smile:

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@Komom

It is a for loop internal varible might be littled different for you…to know start typing current and you would see it might be currentitem as well

Now for condition you can use system.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(extractedpdfdata,"YourRegex") - this will return true if regex matches else false

Cheers

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Thank you so much for your reply! It really helps a lot!

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