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Examples of UiPath PDF activities

Cameron McKenzie edited this page Sep 13, 2020 · 5 revisions

Many RPA activities center around processing invoices or order forms. As such, the ability to perform a variety of UiPath PDF activities on files is extremely important. Here we look at a variety of UiPath PDF functions that are possible. The first? Looping through all pdf files in a directory and using the Start Process activity to open each PDF. Other UiPath PDF activities we perform in this example are sending a maximize UiPath PDF hotkey and also closing the UiPath PDF file.

All PDF UiPath

How to get all PDF files in a directory with UiPath

By the way, if you are doing UiPath structured PDF data extraction, you should make the read mode of Adobe 'Infer.' Here's how to do it:

UiPath Structured Data Extraction in PDFs

And for data extraction, here's an example of how to extract data fields from a single PDF file:

PDF Data Extraction

UiPath Anchor Based PDF Data Extraction

Here's a look at pulling specific fields out of a PDF with the UiPath Anchor Based activity:

UiPath Anchor Based PDF