Unable to get accurate data with Get Text

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Hello Guys,

I am having issues with extracting accurate data from PDF, I read couple posts on this but didn’t find it helpful.

mind you I don’t have the file downloaded into my system it comes as a pop and from there I extract the invoice and paste it back to excel.

I used google OCR thinking the PDF is an image but I can highlight word by word so then I changed to Get text still I am not able to get the right invoice amount its changing.

please help me find the solution.

Thanks,
Sri

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Try using the “Read PDF Text” activity on UiPath and then use string operations to get the data you need

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“Read PDF Text” requires file location which I don’t have as PDFs are not downloaded. I get them as popup after clicking open from the application.

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maybe you can save the pdf to disk and then read it with read pdf text

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unfortunately that’s not an option for me as I want robot to run thru 100’s of invoices which I cant afford to save in my system due to space constraint.

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you could delete every mail after you’re done with it

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@SriRana Try Get Text method or Get full Text method afterwards try string manipulation to get required output

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can you explain me more about string manipulation, I am new at this and confused on how to use it.

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@SriRana String Manupulation depends on how input is and what output ur expecting, so it changes from requirement to requirement.

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Basically after you get the strings from the pdf you can work them with substring, compare, contains, length, etc.