I have been using Knime for awhile, but by no means an expert. I leverage it a lot for data analysis, but most recently have identified an opportunity to read PDF’s. Everything I have tried and read about does not give me the results I need. I simply just want Knime to read the PDF and I can probably run with it from there, but all of the nodes I have used only read the first line or just present the document path. Additionally, all of the workflows in the forum are super complicated for what I need, I really just want to read the text in the PDF file. See the sample below. I know PDF reads can be complicated but the data is semi structured and even if I could just get the text into a blob I probably could figure out a way to parse it. [image]

Wow! What a great community and responses. I used some of the provided insights here and I now have the PDF(s) parsed and I am working on getting the data formatted (WIP). But thank you for all the replies! [image]

PDF reader workflow

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mlauber71 April 7, 2022, 11:11pm 5

@davehansen could you provide us with a sample. Too extract tables from pdf I have used this r package

If you want to just read text there might be this package

You should especially check out the information @victor_palacios gave.