PDF Partial Selectors

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I’m having some trouble setting partial selectors when reading ‘Get Text’ in PDF files.

The selector seems to indicate the references to the text is reading and I can not manage to amend it to make it work.

For example, the following selectors from two different files

<wnd app='acrord32.exe' cls='AcrobatSDIWindow' title='document n. 7117143908.pdf - Adobe Reader' />
<wnd cls='AVL_AVView' title='AVPageView' />
<ctrl name='7117143908 09/06/2017 1/1   ' role='text' />

<wnd app='acrord32.exe' cls='AcrobatSDIWindow' title='document n. 7117143909.pdf - Adobe Reader' />
<wnd cls='AVL_AVView' title='AVPageView' />
<ctrl name='7117143909 09/06/2017 1/1   ' role='text' />

Which I tried to modify as

<wnd app='acrord32.exe' cls='AcrobatSDIWindow' title='document n. *.pdf - Adobe Reader' />
<wnd cls='AVL_AVView' title='AVPageView' />
<ctrl name='*' role='text' />

and

<wnd app='acrord32.exe' cls='AcrobatSDIWindow' title='document n. *.pdf - Adobe Reader' />
<wnd cls='AVL_AVView' title='AVPageView' />
<ctrl role='text' idx='2' />

but I keep getting an error saying that it can not find the selector

Any ideas on how I can set it up properly?

Sample processMain.xaml (30.0 KB)

Sample invoices available privatelly

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selrac.xaml (6.7 KB)

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It doesn’t seem to work :cry:

It doesn’t find the Invoice element. I have the file open when running the xaml

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I see in UiExplorer the anchor you have selected

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What I found strange is that if I select the full selector as the ‘find element’ it still doesn’t work

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Try attach live element and select invoice

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This is not the selector for Invoice, and the below selector will not exist in Get Text as well since its anchor based.

it should have name=“Invoice” etc selector

For element found, indicate on screen and select Invoice element. Now open the 2nd document of same template, open UiExplorer of Get Text>Cick Attach Live element and try for 3rd file now.

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I managed to make it work

The problem was the selector

title='document n. *.pdf - Adobe Reader'

vs

title='document n. *.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC'

I must of been too sleepy yesterday to see it.

The important thing is that I managed to put it together and it works!!

Thanks very much for the help on this issue. I can see how how to make it work with the anchors.

Best regards,

c.

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I’m also facing same problem, could you please elaborate on below

how did you put together.

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@karunakart, the problem I had was that the selector was not correct as I’ve indicated below:

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I have resolved this problem by using regular expression in name. Guess you might have done same. Thanks

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Hello, i need help in selectors, iam trying extract text from a pdf file , i am not getting the selector please resolve this problem
iam not getting the ANCHOR BASE get text , and variable is not creating by itself.

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try this

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Hi @vvaidya

I am using anchor to read data from pdf but i get this as a output.
Its not showing the correct value as output.
Output

anchor
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Hi Shaista: I am also getting the same “1/1” or blank in message box … how did u solve your problem? Stuck!

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Try using Get Full text activity and drag it in the area you want to fetch.