Get File Content and insert to body of an email

[scotth82]

Hi all,

I have a flow that on occurence checks a SharePoint Document library for a file and gets it's contents.

I'm able to create an email and attach the file to that email no problem however as the document is a Word document I'd like to extract the text from the file and insert it to the body of the email.

My flow runs but I just get special characters from the dynamic content onwards.

Hope you can help.

Scott

[v-yuazh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @scotth82,

I have made a test on my side,and I afraid that there is no any way to get file content from a Word document in sharepoint library.

I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in Microsoft Flow currently.

If you would like this feature to get file content from a Word document to be added in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

As an alternative way, you could save the document as a text file instead of a Word document in sharepoint,and the you could get the file content from the dynamic content.

Best regards,

Alice

[scotth82]

Thanks Alice.

[Anonymous]

What about for pdf's?

I'm having a rough time getting pdf content to show up the body of the email. Is that possible?

[Rafiq50]

Hi, 
did you find a solution for this? 

I'm also struggling to get contents of a PDF file.