Extract From File node - How it separate content by pages?

Questions
1

Hello guys,

I’m using Extract from file node in the n8n to extract PDF content. My PDF has 3 pages, however the content is all inside a unique string. How can I do get the PDF content by pages?

Thank you.

2

Kindly, can you share your workflow to provide additional context?

3

Hello, I just have a extract from file node which extracts data from the PDF binary file. One point I noticed is, every file I tried returned a \n\n between the pages. I was thinking if this is the page separator which n8n uses.

4

True—the \n\n (double newline) is typically the page separator when n8n extracts text from PDFs.

To split the content by pages, add a Code node after your Extract from File node with this:

const pdfText = $input.first().json.data; // adjust field name based on your output

// Split by double newline (page separator)
const pages = pdfText.split('\n\n');

// Return each page as a separate item
return pages.map((content, index) => ({
  json: {
    pageNumber: index + 1,
    content: content.trim()
  }
}));

If \n\n doesn’t work consistently, you can also try splitting by form feed character which is the standard PDF page break:

const pages = pdfText.split('\f');

This will give you each page as a separate item that you can process individually downstream.

Let me know if you need help adjusting this to your workflow.