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		earlyriser on March 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated E... I would like this for PDFs. Do you know an app that can handle that?

rahimnathwani on March 4, 2014 | [–]

If the text in your PDFs has enough structure (i.e. fixed field names or punctuation) then it should be possible to convert the PDF to text and then pass it to Zapier's parser.

earlyriser on March 4, 2014 | | [–]

Great to know!

dhfromkorea on March 4, 2014 | [–]

Interesting. What's the use case you're thinking?

earlyriser on March 4, 2014 | [–]

My bank just give me a pdf with all my transactions. I want to analyze them.

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