How to read pdf file in to the tabular format?

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Hi @kiran,

Basically, UiPath provides three ways of extracting data from PDF:

  1. Get text activity with anchor base activity
  2. Read PDF Text activity
  3. Read PDF With OCR activity (this option is suggested when it’s not an original PDF file and is the last recommended since it’s prone to errors)

In your case, I would suggest to test those three options and check which one fulfill better your requirements. In my case, I had a project where I had to extract specific elements from the PDF and then I used the Read PDF Text activity to extract the whole text. After that, I split the text into an array of text lines and started to search the text I needed with functions like Substring, IndexOf, Split and so on.

I hope it helps. :slight_smile:

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