Convert PDF to Text

Extracts text from a PDF document to Text or HTML format with the help of Zapier.

Parameters

Output Parameters

Parameter

Description

Example

File Content

Text or raw HTML from the result file.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
        <head><title></title>
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="UTF-8">
        </head>
        <body>
            <div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">
                <div>
                    <p>
                        <b>3</b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">
                <div>
                    <p>
                        <b>4</b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">
                <div>
                    <p>
                        <b>5</b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">
                <div>
                    <p>
                        <b>6</b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">
                <div>
                    <p>
                        <b>7</b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>

            </div></div>
        </body>
    </html>

Setup Parameters

Parameter

Description

Example

App

Select the app.

Plumsail Documents

Action event

Select an action from the Plumsail Documents bundle.

Convert PDF to Text

Account

To allow your zaps to get information from and send it to Plumsail Documents, you need to create a connection.

For more information on how to create a connection to Plumsail Documents, see the online Help.

Configure Parameters

Parameter

Description

Example

PDF file

The content of PDF document.

You may get the content of the source PDF from the OneDrive app or from some other app.

Result Type

RAW or HTML.

HTML

Start Page

Index of the first page to start extraction (indexes start from 1).

3

End Page

Index of the last page to extract (inclusive). By default, we use the last page of the source document.

7

Password

The password to decrypt the source document if it was encrypted earlier.

PAs$word

Example

Download a source PDF file and use the output in the Convert PDF to Text action.

Convert PDF to Text Example