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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>is there other ways/ootb to parse scanned pdf? parse pdf smart service won&amp;#39;t</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/863/is-there-other-ways-ootb-to-parse-scanned-pdf-parse-pdf-smart-service-won-t</link><description>is there other ways/ootb to parse scanned pdf? parse pdf smart service won&amp;#39;t work on this. TIA.... OriginalPostID-70894 OriginalPostID-70894</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: is there other ways/ootb to parse scanned pdf? parse pdf smart service won't</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/2861?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:10:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:45411009-4d6e-483a-a9b5-dcf0d13657ed</guid><dc:creator>elizabeth.epstein</dc:creator><description>You would pretty much need to use an OCR service (or java library) for this. A scanned PDF document will not have readable fields, which traditional PDF libraries depend on.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: is there other ways/ootb to parse scanned pdf? parse pdf smart service won't</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/2859?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:25:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b2f25a46-d273-4c7a-96d0-10496faf2c64</guid><dc:creator>akhilan</dc:creator><description>Currently, this is not supported out of the box or by any plugin on shared components. You might have to create a custom smart service that does this.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>