Read all PDF files from folder

[Susana (Susana González Cacheiro)]

Hello @Tesla,

Hope this could help you,there is an example of looping files in Library pane. Library pane shows a list of folders containing workflows. Any workflow from Library can be added to a workflow by dragging and dropping it into the designer workspace, just like any activity.

Take a look at this:

Looping through files

James Reece June 14, 2016 09:38 ANSWERED I want a simple workflow to open a pre-defined folder location and to iterate through all pdf files within that have a similar filename (the date changes), e.g. “Weekly Macro Report_yyyy_MMM_dd”, and perform some screen scraping. How can I express "Weekly Macro Report * " as a variable to the Read PDF activity. A wildcard, basically. I cannot find documentation that details the parameters/variables of the activities.

Read multiple pdf files from a folder

I am new to uipath and creating my first sample project where I would like to read multiple fields from multiple pdf files. I have started by using select folder, extracting the file paths using Directory.GetFiles. Then I read each item in the list of files i get. How do i perform the get text for reading a particular field from all the pdfs and storing it in an excel. Kindly help.

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Regards,
Susana