Syntax

	$input.pdf2txt()

Description

Extracts the text from a given PDF document. In the case of a scanned PDF, text is extracted using OCR software. The result may then be inaccurate or incorrect.

The function uses external tools that may need to be installed on the application server: pdf2txt for simple text extraction, pdftoppm for image generation in preparation for OCR, and tesseract for the OCR process of scanned documents.

Parameters

name	Type	Type Description	Mandatory	Default
input	Binary data in PDF format	The document to be converted.	yes	-

Return value

Type: String

The text extracted from the PDF.