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Document Understanding activities
- Overview
- Document Processing Contracts
- Release notes
- About the Document Processing Contracts
- Box Class
- IPersistedActivity interface
- PrettyBoxConverter Class
- IClassifierActivity Interface
- IClassifierCapabilitiesProvider Interface
- ClassifierDocumentType Class
- ClassifierResult Class
- ClassifierCodeActivity Class
- ClassifierNativeActivity Class
- ClassifierAsyncCodeActivity Class
- ClassifierDocumentTypeCapability Class
- ContentValidationData Class
- EvaluatedBusinessRulesForFieldValue Class
- EvaluatedBusinessRuleDetails Class
- ExtractorAsyncCodeActivity Class
- ExtractorCodeActivity Class
- ExtractorDocumentType Class
- ExtractorDocumentTypeCapabilities Class
- ExtractorFieldCapability Class
- ExtractorNativeActivity Class
- ExtractorResult Class
- FieldValue Class
- FieldValueResult Class
- ICapabilitiesProvider Interface
- IExtractorActivity Interface
- ExtractorPayload Class
- DocumentActionPriority Enum
- DocumentActionData Class
- DocumentActionStatus Enum
- DocumentActionType Enum
- DocumentClassificationActionData Class
- DocumentValidationActionData Class
- UserData Class
- Document Class
- DocumentSplittingResult Class
- DomExtensions Class
- Page Class
- PageSection Class
- Polygon Class
- PolygonConverter Class
- Metadata Class
- WordGroup Class
- Word Class
- ProcessingSource Enum
- ResultsTableCell Class
- ResultsTableValue Class
- ResultsTableColumnInfo Class
- ResultsTable Class
- Rotation Enum
- Rule Class
- RuleResult Class
- RuleSet Class
- RuleSetResult Class
- SectionType Enum
- WordGroupType Enum
- IDocumentTextProjection Interface
- ClassificationResult Class
- ExtractionResult Class
- ResultsDocument Class
- ResultsDocumentBounds Class
- ResultsDataPoint Class
- ResultsValue Class
- ResultsContentReference Class
- ResultsValueTokens Class
- ResultsDerivedField Class
- ResultsDataSource Enum
- ResultConstants Class
- SimpleFieldValue Class
- TableFieldValue Class
- DocumentGroup Class
- DocumentTaxonomy Class
- DocumentType Class
- Field Class
- FieldType Enum
- FieldValueDetails Class
- LanguageInfo Class
- MetadataEntry Class
- TextType Enum
- TypeField Class
- ITrackingActivity Interface
- ITrainableActivity Interface
- ITrainableClassifierActivity Interface
- ITrainableExtractorActivity Interface
- TrainableClassifierAsyncCodeActivity Class
- TrainableClassifierCodeActivity Class
- TrainableClassifierNativeActivity Class
- TrainableExtractorAsyncCodeActivity Class
- TrainableExtractorCodeActivity Class
- TrainableExtractorNativeActivity Class
- BasicDataPoint Class
- BasicValue Class
- ComponentCollectionFacade Class
- DataPointFacadeBase Class
- ExtractionResultHandler Class
- FieldGroupDataPoint Class
- FieldGroupValue Class
- FieldLookupBase Class
- FieldRedactionSettings Class
- RedactionOptions Class (Preview)
- RedactionType Enum
- ResultsValueFacadeBase Class
- TableDataPoint Class
- TableRow Class
- TableValue Class
- WildcardDataPoint Class
- WildcardDataPointCollection Class
- Document Understanding ML
- Document Understanding OCR Local Server
- Document Understanding
- Release notes
- About the Document Understanding activity package
- Project compatibility
- Configuring external connection
- Document Understanding coded automation APIs (preview)
- Set PDF Password
- Merge PDFs
- Get PDF Page Count
- Extract PDF Text
- Extract PDF Images
- Extract PDF Page Range
- Extract Document Data
- Create Validation Task and Wait
- Wait for Validation Task and Resume
- Create Validation Task
- Create Document Validation Artifacts
- Retrieve Document Validation Artifacts
- Classify Document
- Create Classification Validation Task
- Create Classification Validation Task and Wait
- Wait for Classification Validation Task and Resume
- Intelligent OCR
- Release notes
- About the IntelligentOCR activity package
- Project compatibility
- Load Taxonomy
- Digitize Document
- Classify Document Scope
- Keyword Based Classifier
- Document Understanding Project Classifier
- Intelligent Keyword Classifier
- Create Document Classification Action
- Create Document Validation Artifacts
- Retrieve Document Validation Artifacts
- Wait For Document Classification Action And Resume
- Train Classifiers Scope
- Keyword Based Classifier Trainer
- Intelligent Keyword Classifier Trainer
- Data Extraction Scope
- Document Understanding Project Extractor
- Document Understanding Project Extractor Trainer
- RegEx Based Extractor
- Form Extractor
- Intelligent Form Extractor
- Redact Document
- Create Document Validation Action
- Wait For Document Validation Action And Resume
- Train Extractors Scope
- Export Extraction Results
- Machine Learning Extractor
- Machine Learning Extractor Trainer
- Machine Learning Classifier
- Machine Learning Classifier Trainer
- Generative Classifier
- Generative Extractor
- Configuring Authentication
- ML Services
- OCR
- OCR Contracts
- Release notes
- About the OCR Contracts
- Project compatibility
- IOCRActivity Interface
- OCRAsyncCodeActivity Class
- OCRCodeActivity Class
- OCRNativeActivity Class
- Character Class
- OCRResult Class
- Word Class
- FontStyles Enum
- OCRRotation Enum
- OCRCapabilities Class
- OCRScrapeBase Class
- OCRScrapeFactory Class
- ScrapeControlBase Class
- ScrapeEngineUsages Enum
- ScrapeEngineBase
- ScrapeEngineFactory Class
- ScrapeEngineProvider Class
- OmniPage
- PDF
- [Unlisted] Abbyy
- [Unlisted] Abbyy Embedded
Read PDF Text activity, which reads all characters from a specified PDF file and stores them in a string variable.
UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText
Description
Reads all characters from a specified PDF file and stores them in a string variable.
Project compatibility
Windows | Cross-platform
Configuration
Designer panel
- FileName - The path of the PDF file to be read. Only String variables and strings are supported.
Properties panel
File
- FileName - The path of the PDF file to be read. Only String variables and strings are supported.
- Password - The password of the PDF file, if necessary. Only String variables and strings are supported.
Input
- PreserveFormatting - If selected, this option maintains the formatting of the file after the extraction is completed. The default value is False.
- Range - The range of pages that you want to read. You can specify a single page (e.g. "7"), a range of pages (e.g. "7-12"), or a complex range, (e.g. "2-5, 7, 15-End" or "All"). Only string variables and strings are supported. The default value is "All".
Output
- Text - The extracted string. This field supports only String variables.
Common
- DisplayName - The display name of the activity.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.
Note:
The Read PDF Text activity extracts the raw text from a PDF file, without applying any extraction algorithms and cannot be used with Document Understanding activities.
Example of using the Read PDF Text activity
Visit Read PDF files to check how the Read PDF Text activity is used in an example that incorporates multiple activities.