Extract data from PDF file attached in inbound email

[jenny32]

Hi

A client has an interesting requirement where I need to extract data from PDF files attached in the inbound email. I looked through the community, but i didn't stumble upon any related post. We do have GeneratePDF util, but that will help to generate pdf but not the vice versa.

Can anyone help me on this

Regards,

Jennifer

[Joshwa Antony S]

Hello Jenny,

You could use javascript PDF library, I haven’t tried it but you can give a try

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554280/extract-text-from-pdf-in-javascript#answer-20522307

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

Another option would be Sending your pdf to another tool which can parse/read your file and send the required output back to you (integration REST API).

Regards,

JAS

[jenny32]

Thank you for quick response! I will go through the mentioned links and try out in similar way.

[Mahesh Kumar7]

@Chuck Tomasi @Pradeep Sharma @Ankur Bawiskar 

I came across a similar requirement. Is it possible in the latest release of ServiceNow.

Best Regards,

Mahesh

[Ankur Bawiskar]

This is not possible currently

Regards
Ankur