https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/17250/reading-file-contentsHi, How to read the content of uploaded file (pdf). Is there any File Read stream available? My requirement is : 1. I will upload PDF file along with some textual data 2. And send this to external system via web api something like below Cen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/68048?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:27:30 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:81758fa8-61fc-4f9e-be45-b811cdef924chusaina0001<p>Thanks Robert. But I am looking for generic function where I can get content of file and assigned it into local variable. This&nbsp;function is not limited to PDF only but other files format too.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/68040?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:46:29 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:0b82d562-e929-4d1a-9d9f-9130136951b2Robert Shankin<p>check out the PDF Tools plugin</p> <p><a href="/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools">https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools</a></p> <p>This includes a get PDF text function.</p> <p></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>