Selectors work in PDF files

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Why my title attribute It’s not ‘date’ and ‘date’ it’s a name attribute? I 'm trying to do a selector that get a value date from an invoice file type PDF but not recognize the selector and consequently it’s not get the value correctly. If I try to modify the title attribute the selector is not work. What can I do?

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We cant use selectors in pdf

We can extract the pdf data using document understanding or read pdf text activity

Thanks,
Robin

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Thank you so much for your time! But It’s possible to use selectors with PDF. There are a lesson about this it in course “RPA Developer Foundation”. In fact, in this course there is a lesson “PDF in automation Studio” which there is a point name it “Extracting Data using Anchor Base”.

There is someone who know how fix it?
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Hi @Carmen_Tur ,

Can you let us know what is the Output that you get? Or Do you get an Error ?

If you do get the Wrong Output, Maybe you can Change the Anchor Position Property of Anchor Base to the Position of the Anchor i.e in your case I believe the Anchor is on the Left Side.

By Default, The Anchor Position would be Auto, sometimes it does give out weird results.

Also, as Suggested by @Robinnavinraj_S , if the file is a Digital PDF, we can use Read PDF Text and then maybe use String Manipulation/regex to get the Data we need.

However, I believe this is for learning purposes, or else I would also have suggested the other approach.

Let us know if the anchor doesn’t work.

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Effectively, @supermanPunch is a task for learning purpose. I have to do with selectors. Apparently is an easy task (If I do the steps to tutorial) but I dont know why, when I choose a selector my attribute title doesn’t take correct values.

In theory, the attribute title take “date” but my attribute title take “Perfect Match.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (64-bit)”. I’ve tried to configure ui frameworks by default, active accessibility and ui automation but result is the same.

Now it give me this error:

Attach Window ‘acrord32.exe Perfect’: No open windows found for ‘acrord32.exe’. Please check if the application is running.

and when I downloaded the solution, neither works. I don’t know if it is a problem in the pdf file, at my program or my workflow.

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Is versioning the issue somewhere?
Your ‘attach window’ seems to reference Acrord32.exe, which is Abode reader (32-bit)
then your selector has Acrobat.exe, which is abode Acrobat Pro.

Looks like it you may be opening it in one, then looking for the other.