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Jeff B.63
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2 years ago

Retrieve the text content of PDF file using API

Is it possible to use the API to retrieve the text content of a PDF after it has been OCR'd by Dropbox?   I have an Azure Logic App that saves email attachments to Dropbox as PDF files.  These file...
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

No, unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to retrieve the OCR'd text like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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Jeff B.63
Collaborator | Level 9
2 years ago

Thank you Greg.

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