Hi There, I have tried to extract the text from the following PDF (which is an attachment to an email): ( Newsletter PDF ) . The PDF was created using MS Word. I am using the Extract from file/extract from PDF node as below. However, I get minimal text as below. Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks N…

Hi @diggooddog , I don’t have access to your original PDF so I’m not sure what your expected output would be - do you mean you’re expecting more text in the output? I just tested with a pdf I had and the ‘Extract from PDF’ operation in the node is working fine for me so I don’t think there’s an is…

It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable. n8n version: Database (default: SQLite): n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Operating system:

Thanks for your time @aya . Apologies I had the wrong security setting on the PDF linked in my original post but have fixed now so the PDF should now be publicly available. I’ve done some more analysis since posting and plan to use OCR; I manually converted the PDF to an image and used chatpgt as my…

Hi @diggooddog , You can always use an HTTP request node to make an API request to a third party service like CloudConvert if you can’t find a built-in node available (or you’re on Cloud service and you can’t use the community node, like in this case). Here’s another similar post with a solution usi…

[image] aya: CloudConvert Thanks @aya I’ll give CloudConvert a go

Hi @aya , am back on this now and appreciate your help please. I’ve subscribed to Claude to minimise my posts here but it cant help me with the following. I am using n8n cloud. I set up an http request node to upload a pdf from google drive to cloudconvert, convert to jpgs and save in google drive. …

I will now close this topic and will start a new one. Thanks @aya for your help. I think the problem I have is trying to access the attachment using JSON in the http request.

@diggooddog , I think there is a bug where you can’t reference binary data as an expression using the expression editor or in a json input, only by direct naming, similar to this issue here . :cry: So you’ll have to upload it to drive first before converting it via CloudConvert as a workaround for t…

Thanks @aya . I found a way to reference the file using the http request node without JSON but that didn’t work so I created a new Topic yesterday on that issue. If you or one of your colleagues could take a look I’d appreciate it.

Extract from PDF: Text extracted is minimal

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aya Novembre 19, 2024, 12:40 12

Hey @diggooddog looks like you managed to get some great tips from the other thread so posting it down below for others who land on this thread looking for a solution to a similar problem:

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