RE: Appian RPA Use Case

Vadivelan — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:13:14 GMT

Hi Javier Advani

I'm able to use the pdfbox java library to extract the data and use in Appian. Thanks!!

RE: Appian RPA Use Case

Vadivelan — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:47:56 GMT

Hi Javier Advani,

Thanks for the info. I will have a look at the pdfbox java library for the implementation.

RE: Appian RPA Use Case

Javier Advani — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:03:14 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your question. We should first consider if the PDF is readable or not. A readable PDF means that you are able to select and copy (ctrl + c) the desired piece of text to be processed by the robot. In that case, the Java library Apache PDFBox would be the best approach to cover the text extraction. https://pdfbox.apache.org/
By the other hand, if the process deals with text as image in the PDF file, Appian IDP covers a complete solution to extract and classify information from the PDFs. I highly recommend you to have a look to the documentation of Appian IDP here: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.2/idp-1/idp-landing-page.html