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Hello,

I am trying to extract some text from a PDF to send to a webpage. The PDFs are always the same and the text to extract is always from the same field of the PDF.

I can successfully extract all of the text from the PDF into a variable text list, but when i try and return the specific line from the extracted text list i do not get the result i would expect,

The text extracted is successful

I then create a variable to return line 16 from the extracted text, i also tried just sending line 16 from the extractedPDF directly and found the same result, (i created the extra variable so i can see what text was being extracted from the PDF text list).

I receive the letter 'e' from line 16, where it should be the word 'test'.

If i try and extract text from line 15, i get the letter 'r' as my value,

any help greatly appreciated,

Neil

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eetuRobo 4,579 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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You need to split the text by New line

Then refer to that TextList which Split text -action created same way you tried previously. You cant take line from string variable. If you refer to string varialbe like %VaribleName[15]% It will take the 15th character I think. But when you split in into a list then every line is its own list item.

There you would get the 3nd line since list index starts from 0.
So first line would be TextList[0]. And for your case when you want to get line 16 the index is 15 so %TextList[15]%

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Neil_ODonnell 46 on at

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Thank you very much, this worked perfectly,

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