Why WordReadText doesn't read text boxes?

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Hello and thank you for your intension to help.

I have an MS Word document with some text boxes inside.
When I read the document using UiPath.Word.Activities.WordReadText the result lacks the content of the text boxes.

I took it further and created a PDF file from that Word doc.
The result: the text boxes appear in the PDF file and when I read the PDF file using UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText, the result contains the content of text boxes (unlike the reading of the original Word documet).

Thank you very much for any help,
Udi

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Hi @Udiar ,

Would you be so kind as to include a sample document(s) for us to work with?

Kind Regards,
Ashwin A.K

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Oh, sorry, as a new user I’m not allowed to upload files. However I’ve uploaded the files to a shared Dropbox folder:

‘Sample.docx’ is the original document with text boxes. Two sample text boxes are marked in red color.
‘Sample.pdf’ is the pdf version of ‘Sample.docx’.
‘Extract_From_Sample_docx.txt’ is the txt file extracted from ‘Sample.docx’ using UiPath.Word.Activities.WordReadText.
‘Extract_From_Sample_pdf.txt’ is the txt file extracted from ‘Sample.pdf’ using UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText.

Thank you very much for your help.

Kind regards,
Udi