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Can you read a PDF to populate the text in the PDF into column?

  • June 23, 2017
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I have a PDF (which was a word document which I no longer have) I need to pull out information form the PDF to populate in a column. Is it possible?  Manually I can copy the information in the PDF and paste the information, but is there a way of doing this using nintexs as I have many entries to pull.

Is it possible to convert a PDF back to word or eml?

Thanks

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  • June 29, 2017

Currently there is not an action in Nintex with this feature.

You could develop a custom action for that.

In some cases you can use the Open XML SDK for that reason >>> How to: Parse and read a large spreadsheet document (Open XML SDK) 


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  • June 30, 2017

An alternative approach may be to get the data value from the file into a Document Property and then map that property to SharePoint field. This might help you get started with this approach https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-properties-metadata.html and Muhimbi has some tools for working with PDFs and SharePoint that may be helpful.