Extract Text from PDF - not functioning

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Hello, I am currently facing an issue with Extract text from pdf activity in PAD. It worked for my other workflows but when I tried with a new invoice it throws and error at the first place.
My pdf file extension is ".PDF" is this the reason why it is not working properly.

Please suggest me a method to solve this issue.

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Manish Solanki 15,169 Moderator on at

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Hi,

Please make sure you are passing the valid pdf file full path in the action. I would suggest try entering the hardcoded file path:

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Please note that this action will not extract text from pdfs generated from the images. It works only on native pdf files.

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Have you opened the pdf in Acrobat to make sure you can select text and that it is not an image-based pdf file? If it is, you'll need to perform OCR on the file before you can extract the text. See OCR actions reference - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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