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Flow to Split PDF into single pages now broken

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Posted on by 2,407 Super User 2024 Season 1

I have been using a Flow to split multipage PDFs into single pages for over a year. Since the update a few weeks ago, it no longer works reliably. The PDF contains multiple invoices, I use the Flow to create single page invoices which then are uploaded to a SP document library and are run through RPA to extract data. Now most of the time the Flow only extracts a handful of the PDFs. There are often 50-70 pages, but the extraction only pulls 12-15 pages out. I may be using the wrong method but here is the relevant part of the Flow:

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Could the loop be running too fast? Is there a better way to accomplish this?

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    The loop cannot "run too fast", that's for sure. But you have set up some error handling on the action. What does it do? You may want to see if it runs into some sort of an error, and if the "on error" rules are set up to continue the flow run, some pages might be skipped because of that.

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    2,407 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Actually I added a Wait in the loop and all of the pages were processed

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Are you saving those files into some network directory, like a synced OneDrive folder or something like that?

  • BrianS Profile Picture
    2,407 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Local drive on my machine - I want them to go to the SP doc library, but I was not successful in getting the flow to do that, so I have it open the folder and I drag them over the library manually

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