How to extract information from downloaded email pdfs?

Questions
1

I am using the Email Trigger (IMAP) to download the content from emails containing resume pdfs. I see that the attachments from each email are being output by the node in the “Binary” section, but I cannot find a way to pass them to other nodes for extraction of information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  • Alain Fornes
3

Hi Alain,
pls. use Read PDF node to extract the text from the binary attachment. Then you should use the Code node to parse the text with regex JS.
Best regards, Kurt

4

I am getting this error when using that node:
ERROR: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘id’)

Maybe I am using the wrong input for the “Binary Property” field?

Thank you for your help.

  • Alain
5

Asuming you have only one PDF attachment in the email message, you could use “attachment_0” in the field “Binary Property”

If your email messages contain more than 1 attachment use “Split in Batches” node set to batchsize 1 to process each attachment individually.

  • Kurt
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