Text Processing

Every PDF Becomes Searchable Text

Applicant uploads a resume. The text lands in a long text field on their record. Now you can search, filter, and trigger automations based on what's inside the PDF.

Extract Your First PDF

PDF Text Extractor

OCR Enabled

invoice_10042.pdf2 pages · 1.8 MB

Extracted Text

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HR Coordinator

You have 200 resumes as PDF attachments. To find candidates with Python experience, you open each one manually.

Compliance Officer

Signed contracts live as attachments. When legal needs to search for a specific clause, someone spends hours opening files.

Grant Manager

Grant proposals arrive as PDFs. Comparing them means opening 30 documents side by side instead of filtering a table.

One tool, four superpowers

Full text extraction

Pull all readable text from PDF files. Handles multi-page documents, tables, and formatted text.

Field mapping

Extracted text goes into any long text field. Use it for search, automations, or display in interfaces.

Multi-page support

Works with PDFs of any length. Extract from all pages or specify a page range.

Automatic processing

Runs every time a form submission includes a PDF attachment. No manual trigger needed.

Up and running in minutes

Select the attachment field

Choose which field contains the PDF uploads you want to extract text from.

Choose the destination field

Pick a long text field where extracted text will be saved. Create a new one if needed.

Configure extraction settings

Set page range (all or specific pages), choose whether to preserve formatting, and set a character limit if needed.

Enable and test

Activate the extractor and submit a test form with a PDF. Check that the text appears in your destination field.

Power features when you need them

AExtraction options

Full document or specific page ranges
Preserve paragraph structure
Extract tables as tab-separated text
Character limit with truncation

BUse cases

Make resume content searchable
Index contract terms for filtering
Extract invoice data for processing
Pull metadata from uploaded reports

CWorks with

Standard text PDFs
Multi-column documents
Documents with headers and footers
Forms with fillable fields

Frequently asked questions

Does it work with scanned PDFs?

It extracts embedded text from standard PDFs. Scanned documents (image-only PDFs) need OCR, which is not currently supported.

Is there a file size limit?

Up to 25MB per PDF. Most form-uploaded documents are well under this limit.

Can I extract from multiple PDFs on one record?

Yes. If an attachment field has multiple PDFs, text from all of them is extracted and concatenated in the destination field.

Does it preserve formatting like bold and headings?

Plain text only. Formatting markers are stripped, but paragraph breaks and basic structure are maintained.

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