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title: "Get Text From PDF Step"
slug: "get-text-from-pdf-step"
tags: ["pdf", "text"]
updated: 2025-02-20T20:18:55Z
published: 2025-02-20T20:18:55Z
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# Get Text From PDF Step

## Overview

| ## Step Details |
| --- |
| **Introduced in Version** | --- |
| **Last Modified in Version** | --- |
| **Location** | Data > PDF |

The **Get Text From PDF** step will read the specified PDF file and output the text.

[Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/gZvzLjGd0ag)

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## Properties

#### Settings

| Property | Description | Data Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Preserve Whitespace | Retains the whitespace in the PDF when outputting the text | --- |
| Read All Pages | Allows the user to specify the pages to read or all pages in the PDF | --- |

#### Inputs

| Property | Description | Data Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PDF Document | PDF document to be converted into a PCL file | FileData |

#### Outputs

| Property | Description | Data Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Done |
|  | PDF Text | Text that was returned from the PDF file | String |

#### ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/image-1662577418754.png) --- [Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/gZvzLjGd0ag?&t=6s&wmode=opaque&rel=0) Related Forum Posts[Text From PDF](https://support.decisions.com/forum/topic290-text-from-pdf.aspx)

## Related

- [Convert PDF to PCL Step](/convert-pdf-to-pcl-step.md)
- [Split PDF Steps](/split-pdf-steps.md)
- [Add PDF Header and Footer](/add-pdf-header-footer.md)
- [Merge PDF Documents](/merge-pdf.md)
- [Recognize Text From PDF Step](/recognize-text-from-pdf-step.md)