PDF document Important points in UIPath

PDF will contain Native text or scanned copy data.

1.       Text and images will contain PDF documents

2.       Large texts or specific texts

3.       Read PDF text activity to read PDF text data but it won’t read image based data

4.       Read PDF will contain Range parameter, which will used for complete doc (ALL pages) or specific pages or one particular page.

OCR Based PDF activity

1.       Google or Microsoft or Abbyy

2.       Different engines have different parameters

3.       OCR quality is not good and it will more imply with original document

4.       Which is not preferable most of the time because of information will not segregated as per original PDF document

5.       Whenever possible to use non OCR methods

6.       OCR will read image along with text of the PDF documents

Screen scraping

1.        In screen scraping document will display as per original like spaces and lines as well

Specific element extraction In PDF document

1.       Get text activity will extract specific element

2.       Get text element will use selector to extract specific element for the similar PDF documents

3.       In selector Attach to live element will easy to fix for specific element

4.       In selector open ui explorer we can use to modify as per our requirements and it give new selector information.

Another Based activity

1.       Anchor based activity

a.       In Anchor based activity we will use find element activity to modify the selector for wildcard so that it can be useful when same doc contain different values

b.      Which contain Anchor position which will more useful, where the value is present and will pick it from easily

c.       It will work for same structure PDF file

d.      Which is more flexible compare with earlier ones

e.      It’s more reliable  

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For screen scraping and Anchor based element PDF document should be in open status otherwise Uipath will through an error