First of all, thanks for this great applicaation. It’s really useful and I have already created a couple of workflows.
I can’t get one of my workflows to work though. This is the scenario:
Get a pdf attachment from an email (IMAP Email)
Get data (invoice date) from the pdf (Read PDF)
Write the attachment to NextCloud (ownCloud actually) (NextCloud)
Whatever I try though, I can’t get the last step to work. I tried attachment_0 as the Binary property on the NextCloud module. I tried to insert a Move Binary Data to JSON step just after the IMAP step. But it seems the attachment data gets lost after any step that I add.
What does work is a simple WF: IMAP Email → NextCloud, using attachment_0 as binary property. But as soon as I put something in between those 2 steps, I lose my attachment.
Welcome to the community @vco1 and great to hear that you enjoy n8n!
Yes, you are right. The “Read PDF” node really seems to lose the binary data (it is to be honest a horrible node anyway and I hope we can improve it soon). That is a bug and will be fixed in the next version.
One workaround would be to simply merge the data back again with a Merge-Node set to “Merge By Index” as in this example:
