Convert PDF To CSV

RE: Convert PDF To CSV

davidw871501 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:31:47 GMT

That is a real scenario lots of folks start with HTML to CSV and then bump into PDF to CSV which is a bit trickier because PDFs are not structured like HTML tables

what you can do depends on the kind of PDFs you have if they are mostly table‑based then using a tool that can extract tables first makes your life much easier

one simple approach outside your plugin environment is to use a PDF to CSV converter first and then save that Excel as CSV once it looks right inside Excel or Sheets
this gives you a structured intermediate format to work with

RE: Convert PDF To CSV

manjit.1486 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 06:13:53 GMT

Thanks, Martin for the information. I already used getpdftext function to extract data from the pdf file. Then, I break the data according to requirements and parsed it to CDT. However, I managed to accomplish the goal and it's working right.

I will definitely check the youtube link for additional information. Thanks

RE: Convert PDF To CSV

martincamacho — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:55:19 GMT

you could use the following plugin to extract the text from the PDF (getpdftext function)

https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools

afther that you can use the extracted text to create a CSV file manually using the Text Doc from Template smartserivce

there is a youtube channel where they explain the creating a csv process: "Native Bean Turorials" the video is "Appain: CDT to CSV | English | NBT"

RE: Convert PDF To CSV

martincamacho — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:37:23 GMT

Hello, does the PDF file have a specific format? like tables or plain text? could you share an example?