Read PDF Text Activity should also return structured text

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When we use Read PDF Text or Read PDF Text With OCR it always returns the text into string format however sometimes I feel it should also provide the structured format like if I look at the extracted text and pdf file, it should look same. I am not sure if you have seen or not but this feature is available in AA. I’m not comparing this tool right now however sometime I feel if UiPath includes that feature, it will become more awesome.

#HappyRobotics

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hello there,

Read PDF Text now has a “PreserveFormatting” flag that tries to keep the layout of the machine readable text from within a PDF. Does this help?

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It would be a great help I believe. However I check it out and get back to you.

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Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion. I added it to our internal ideas tracker for our team to consider.

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Hello @vikaskulhari,

Did you manage to check out the PreserveFormatting flag? Does it work for your use case?

Ioana

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Though read pdf activity works in the background without requiring the pdf to be opened which is great but it didn’t preserve the structure.

I will check this out too since I have a similar problem of the structure being lost when I used read pdf activity. I have used get full text or native text activities as an alternative as these preserve the structure. But these activities require us to open the pdf.

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Do try the PreserveFormatting flag - it should help.

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I have enabled the Preserve formatting Flag and unfortunately it does not work for my pdf which is semistructured.

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Any chance you could share a sample file?

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try out with different OCR engine,
my suggestion is to use Abbyy Cloud OCR it’ll give you the desired output!

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Apologies it’s a spii document, so i cannot share it.

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Hi @Pradeep_Shiv,

This is about pdf docs that are not scanned but native pdf documents so i have used read pdf text activity and not the one with ocr. Ocr is not needed ryt.

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it your documents are not scanned ocr is not required