Search for a word in a retrieved text and display from that word onwards

[Melanny_Herrera_Cruz]

Good afternoon, I am carrying out an automation and I have to obtain the text of a scanned pdf and from everything obtained I need to search for a specific word and show what follows after that word. Can someone help me please.

For example, I have a text that says “Please read our Forum FAQ - Beginner’s Guide before creating a new post. If you want to report a bug”, I need you to bring me everything that goes after “post” and “report”.

[raja.arslankhan (Raja Muhammad Arslan khan)]

@Melanny_Herrera_Cruz
Flowchart:
Sequence:
1. Read PDF with OCR (output variable: scannedText)
2. Assign postIndex = scannedText.IndexOf(“post”) + “post”.Length
3. Assign reportIndex = scannedText.IndexOf(“report”) + “report”.Length
4. Assign textAfterPost = scannedText.Substring(postIndex)
5. Assign textAfterReport = scannedText.Substring(reportIndex)
6. Log Message: "Text after ‘post’: " + textAfterPost
7. Log Message: "Text after ‘report’: " + textAfterReport

[Quenton_Wayne_Rebello]

Once you have read the pdf using read pdf or read pdf with ocr activity and got the specific word you want to get text from.

You can try using the regex (?<=Word_Var).* → Where It gives all words after word_var in the same line.

E.g:-
1.

[rlgandu (Rajyalakshmi Gandu)]

@Melanny_Herrera_Cruz

Use read pdf text with ocr store the result in string

Use regex or string manipulations to extract the particular data in the string

In Depth Understanding of Regular Expression in Few Minutes|Chapter 2| Uipath | ExpoHub

Uipath Regex

This will help you to extract text from string

[Melanny_Herrera_Cruz]

@Quenton_Wayne_Rebello, can you please share how the designer did. It performs as the observance tells me, but I get a boolean result.

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @Melanny_Herrera_Cruz

You are using Is Text Matching activity it gives boolean output.

Use Find Matching Patterns activity

or

Matches=System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(yourstringinput.ToString,“(\W)”)

Regards,

[supermanPunch (Arpan)]

Duplicate :

Search for a word in a scanned pdf text and display from that word onwards to another word that is indicated

Good afternoon, I am doing an automation and I have to get the text of a scanned pdf and from everything I get I need to search for a specific word and show what follows after that word until another word that I indicate. Can anybody help me please. For example, I have a text that says “Please read our Forum FAQ - Beginner’s Guide before creating a new post.” What I need is for it to bring me everything that goes after “Guide” and that is before “post.”

[Quenton_Wayne_Rebello]

You are using Regex.IsMatch so it checks if there is a match in the string with the regex. Instead you can do System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(String,Regex).Value.ToString

The above can be directly used in an assign activity. So left will be variable you want to save it in and right will be System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(String,Regex).Value.ToString.

If you want to do using activities, use find matching pattern, where result will give an array of matches and first Match will give a string result.