Pdf extraction with get text

[tobschroer]

Hey all,
i would like to extract the invoice number from a PDF. However the message box always shows: AVPageView
Maybe you have any ideas.
Thanks Tobi

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@tobschroer

AVPageView

Hi,
does the below link solve your issue?

Lesson 10 Get Text PDF is not working - Just outputting Ávpageview"

I tried running ‘Get Text PDF’’ in lesson 10 and I get ÄVpageview" as ouput instead of “'40” I tried independently also. It is not working. I may be missing something here.

[tobschroer]

Hi @PAD,
i tried all Options, but it´s still the same.

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Hi, it might be also a selector issue, so you might want to recheck your selection - e.g. please see the below topic:

Unable to read data from pdf

Hi, I am trying to extract date, invoice number from pdf using get text activity. But getting the output as below “AvPageView”. I am attaching xaml file along with pdf. Can any one help me in solving this issue Main.xaml (6.2 KB) Session_10_exercise_1_NPO_1_perfect_match.pdf (95.7 KB)

[Manjuts90]

@tobschroer use regex, it will help you.

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Please see also the post below - perhaps by some other get text activity you will be able to get the data:

Error after used Data Scraping for PDF TO CSV

Hi, Can you manually highlight the text on the PDF file? If the answer is “no” then you won’t be able to select elements and will need to scrape the text as an image using Get OCR or Read PDF using OCR. If you can highlight the text, I’m not sure what the problem is, though. Thanks.

[oduzen001 (oguzhan duzen)]

Hi There,

If the document template doesn’t change, you can use following solution.

regards,

Oguzhan

Main.xaml (13.1 KB)

[ecem.urun (Ecem)]

thank you!! your answer helped me a lot!