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Lesson 10 PDF Recap

PDF documents can be categorized into those containing large chunks of text or whole documents, and those focusing on specific elements. There are two main activities for extracting data from PDFs: Read PDF Text for text-based PDFs, and Read PDF With OCR for images-based PDFs. Anchors provide a reliable way to extract values despite structural changes by identifying stable references.

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Lesson 10 PDF Recap

PDF documents can be categorized into those containing large chunks of text or whole documents, and those focusing on specific elements. There are two main activities for extracting data from PDFs: Read PDF Text for text-based PDFs, and Read PDF With OCR for images-based PDFs. Anchors provide a reliable way to extract values despite structural changes by identifying stable references.

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LESSON 10 – PDF Automation - RECAP

Overview

In this lesson you have learnt about the types of PDF documents and the available methods for
extracting data from such files. We also looked into anchors, a way to deal with unstable
selectors.
Takeaways

You can place PDF activities into 2 categories: one for when processing large chunks of
text or whole documents and one for when focusing on specific text elements.

When looking to extract data from PDF, depending on your file you should choose
one of these 2 activities: Read PDF Text and Read PDF With OCR.

Both activities can run in the background.

Another method of grabbing blocks of text is the Screen Scraping tool.

When looking to extract a certain value from PDF files, you can also use Anchor
Base.
Best practices

Use Read PDF Text instead of Read PDF With OCR when possible since OCR is error
prone.

The Anchor Base method can be more reliable than the others since it can
handle major structural changes in the file.
Useful links

PDF Data Extraction

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