Save only pdf files from email to Sharepoint

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Hello Team.

I am working on a Power Automate flow where the main trigger is when an email with an attachment is received and I want that if that attachment is a file in PDF format it is saved on my Sharepoint site. I have read several tutorials but I can only find the solution to save all the files in the email, that is, if the email arrives with a PDF and an image with the sender's signature or their company logo, these images are also saved. I would only like to save the PDF file. Is this possible?

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trice602 15,402 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

Here's a flow you can use. Please check it out!

In the trigger, it is important to turn on both parameters to Yes.

Next add a condition. You do not need to add the Foreach; it will add itself. I like to create flows this way to make sure I am using the correct dynamic content in my loop. So here, we check if the attachment name is a pdf. If true, create the file. This will help you eliminate those pesky signature pngs.

Next, on the true side, I create the file in SharePoint.

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Hi,

I also wanted to show you the run and the results. Here's the sample email with two attachments, one pdf and one png.

The first attachment is processed and saved to SP, shown below.

The second attachment is was not saved because it was a png.

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Mark Nanneman 991 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You can filter the attachments array on the contentType or name property. Checking if the value contains "pdf" would filter only pdfs from the attachments array.

use a filter operation to output only the items from the attachments array that contain "pdf" in the "contentType" property:

Example:

After this just do a apply to each on the output of the filter action to save your files or do whatever you want with them.

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