Hello, I want to extract the raw text from a PDF file, I can use the Google Drive module “download file”. It gives me raw data, how can I convert it to text? Thanks David

Hey David! Yeah, that’s not easy. PDF files are applications themselves, unlike other simpler formats. There’s no straightforward way to convert them. The way to go is to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. You can search for “OCR API” and try to find some options. I’ve never used an…

Hey David, I used Google cloud vision to solve this issue. Worked like a charm and was super easy to set up. We use ist to convert invoices to text. Works at >95% accuracy. Feel free to reach out in case of questions. [Bildschirmfoto 2023-06-07 um 17.13.57]

Hey Trond, I’m trying to do something similar with invoices and Google Cloud Vision. I’ve got GCV working and to some extent Text Parsing working using RegEx. But I’m intrigued by what you’re doing to get the invoice data out of the files and into the format that you’re using. How are you getting…

Thanks for reaching out. Here is some screenshots, I hope they help :slight_smile: Set-Up of Text parser (replace): [Bildschirmfoto 2023-07-19 um 09.59.03] Set-up of ChatGPT: [Bildschirmfoto 2023-07-19 um 10.00.34] Prompt I am using to extract the data: "I want you to act as an accountant. …

Hi David, To convert the raw data from the PDF file that you’ve downloaded using the Google Drive module into text, you can make use of PDFco’s API. PDFco offers powerful tools for working with PDF documents, including text extraction. We provide you a simple guide on how you can achieve this task …

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