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January 27, 2023
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Read data from Docx file

  • January 27, 2023
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Hello Community,

Does anyone knows how to read data from a docx file in the same way we can do for PDF files?

I read that is possible to convert docx files to pdf and maybe accomplish this, but not sure.

Please let me know if you have some ideas how to accomplish this.

Thank you

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mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
January 27, 2023

There's no "very easy" way, and it depends to a great extent on exactly what data you're trying to extract and what you're trying to do with that data.

The dynamic document generator plug-in (for at least one example, there may be a few) has a smart service called "PDF from Docx" which would create a new PDF from an input DOCX file - frankly that might be the easiest thing to try first, as you'd just need to install that plug-in and try it to see if it works.

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    gayathris111098
    gayathris111098
    January 30, 2023

    As Mike suggested we can use the pdf functions to read the data from pdf after converting the document to pdf. Attaching link for your reference

    community.appian.com/.../pdf-tools

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