Reading pdf forms

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I am trying to read editable form fields that have been filled out in a pdf document. Libraries such as itext give me all the editable fields and their values. I am trying to do the same in UI path , seems like my options are

  1. Read entire text and get to my field using regex
  2. Use selectors to read from the screen
  3. Use ocr

All 3 seems more clunky than calling something like a getAFormFields. Let me know if I am missing something

Something like this

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you can’t use OCR since it’s editable pdf,
you can go with extract text from pdf and use regex to extract the fields

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Hie @Venu_S for reading editable fields in UiPath you can use Get Text … and use log message or message box or write line to read extracted value from pdf…

cheers Happy Automation :smile:

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Thanks guys, so there nothing like the one from the stack overflow library, if there are say 100 fields I have no option but to create regex to get each of them right ?

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Hie @Venu_S yes you can say this another option is you can go with the Document Understanding Method Approach to extract data from the pdf but this method is only use when the format of multiple pdfs is same …
cheers Happy Automation