Unable to use PDF Reader function in Alteryx

ivoiculescu2020

Dear team,

I need to use Alteryx to read the data from pdf documents but I am getting this error message when I am trying to use the PDF reader function.

I attached a screenshot of this error message. I am using Alteryx Designer x64, version: 2019.3.5.17947

Thank you for your help!

Kind regards,

Ioana

ALTERYX PDF READER ERROR.PNG

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markcurry

Hi @ivoiculescu2020

I've seen the PDF reader tool, give that error message when the additional R packages it uses aren't installed. I think that tool needs, pdftools and tesseract R libraries for it to run. I've attached 2 workflows that you can run, which will install the R packages for you. Make sure you don't see any warnings when installing the packages, if you do just re-run the workflow.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Install pdftools.yxmd

Install tesseract.yxmd

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Emil_Kos

Hi @ivoiculescu2020,

If you want to use PDF reader functionality build in Alteryx you need to have a machine learning component and newer version of Alteryx.

ivoiculescu2020

@Emil_Kos

Thank you so much for your quick reply!

I installed Alteryx version 2020.3.7.30263 and I also tried installing the R packages - which I thought I did successfully - but I tried to use the PDF reader again and this error message shows up. Please help!

Thank you!!

Emil_Kos

Hi @ivoiculescu2020,

Do you have this tool pallete?

I am not sure you have installed the R package correctly.

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