Read PDF with OCR

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Hi everyone, I am using “Read PDF with OCR” to read a scanned PDF. But as a result the activity is only reading first page of PDF file. Do have to change any elements to read entire PDF.

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@ash_kettchup, Hope you followed this ,

Range - Should be either “All” or empty to read the entire pdf.

https://activities.uipath.com/docs/pdf-read-pdf-with-ocr

Many more references from forum…

Regards,
Dominic :slight_smile:

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Your suggestions helped me, thank you.

But in my scope of work i need to extract data from different PDF files.

issue i am facing is:

Some PDF files output is good with native scraping and others require to use OCR. Is there any way that i can build a LOGIC that, BOT has to take any PDF in folder as input and decide the better way of reading it(native or OCR) by its self.

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@ash_kettchup, May we know on what basis your classfication of good/not good is based ?

Like scenario wise,

  1. Readable pdf - good
  2. Scanned pdf - not good

BTW is there any chance of getting to know the pdf type ? (Based on filename or something else). If its so we shall make it accordingly.

Regards,
Dominic :slight_smile:

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Thank you @Dominic, There are readable and as well as Scanned pdf’s.
-There is no change of knowing pdf type until and unless we open it.

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Hi! I am trying to do a bot to identify which pdf type it is, and I do notice that if I open a scanned pdf file and click, it will be highlighted. Is there a way to create an IF statement with this singularity?