Identify Unreadable PDF FILES

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Hello Good People,

I am trying to incorporate RegEx in my flows to read PDF contracts but I noticed that some PDF documents come out and show unreadable data. Is there a way to have PowerAutomate identify the files which were not able to open up the file? I just want a way to figure out which ones they are so I can target them differnetly. Thanks for reading.

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Can you put an IF condition to check if the variable contains one of the gibberish symbols?

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This seems like a risky move as I am not sure it would be in every situation.

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Can you manually do a Ctrl A and Ctrl C on both the docs, and then Ctrl V in notepad and see if it raises any difference in behaviour....like one is able to retrieve text but the other is blank or some other kind of popup shows up.

If yes then the same can be implemented via PAD.

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If I copy the information from the variable value window into notepad it will be the same thing. It will not allow me to do it directly from the PDF into notepad as editing permissions are not allowed because there is a password on the file. All of these documents have passwords but some of them show this gibberish

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