PDF as an Input file for Designer

[nilesh92]

Do we have a capability to read number or may be text for that purpose from a PDF format file as an input to Designer Tool we have a system which actually produces a PDF report and then we manually have to segregate the issues according to the categories. Can some one please suggest if there is a solution existing or in working stage

[Joe_Lipski]

Hi @nilesh92 - I've just stumbled across this a couple of years later... I'm sure you may have already found that you can read PDFs into Alteryx in a couple of ways.

1) The Intelligence Suite add-on comes with tools created by Alteryx that can read and parse PDF files (as well as some great machine learning and assisted modelling capabilities). This does come at an additional cost and you can find out all of the details and start a trial here: https://www.alteryx.com/products/alteryx-platform/intelligence-suite

2) You could build your own tool to do this using external packages (Python) or web APIs

3) You could make use of one of the community open source macros that community members have kindly built and shared on the gallery. Here's a couple of examples:

https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/PDF-Input/5b685aff0462d710907f7a3b

https://gallery.alteryx.com/?sf113920624=1#!app/PDF-Input--Text-and-Image-/5be5ec8d0462d71ffce6deaa

@KylieF - Based on the above info I think you can mark this as implemented ☑️

[KylieF]

Thank you for the ping Joe!

As was pointed out by Joe, we have several methods of getting PDF inputs into Alteryx including our Intelligence Suite Add-On as well as a few open source macros created by the community on Gallery. As such I'm marking this as implemented.