Extracting Attachments from PDF Documents

[stephenkln]

Hey all,

Question...not sure if this is possible, but I have a flow set up to download attachments from a shared mailbox and save them to folders in sharepoint based on the name of the attachment. These attachments are PDF documents. Within each PDF is also an attachment which is a CSV file. Is there anyway to read/parse the pdf contents to save this attachment as a CSV/excel file?

Thanks!

[trad]

One option might be to use the Premium connector action from Cloudmersive Document Conversion called "Convert PDF Document to Text (txt) (Preview)". I have been able to use this to extract text from PDFs.

Documentation is at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cloudmersiveconvert/#convert-pdf-document-to-text-(txt)

Cloudmersive has some really nice stuff available!

[Paulie78]

Docparser is really good for this sort of thing also.

[stephenkln]

Are there any possible solutions that do not involve premium connectors? Implementing a premium connector would require getting past lots of red tape.

[rossleishman]

I have a similar issue.  I am able to fill in a PDF form and "submit" it which automatically saves it to a SharePoint library with relevant metadata.  How can I automatically extract any attached documents within the PDF to the folder using powerautomate.