Convert CSV/Excel to PDF using Power Automate Cloud

In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to convert a CSV file to PDF using the PDF.co connector for Power Automate Cloud. Here, we’ll use the PDF.co custom connector.

Create New Flow

Let’s begin with creating a new “Instant cloud flow”.

New Flow

Select a Trigger

Next, we’ll name a flow and select the trigger as “Manually trigger a flow”.

Manually trigger flow

Select PDF.co Operation

Add a new step and select the “PDFco” operation from the Custom tag. It’ll list all operations by PDF.co. Here, select the “PDF from XLS or CSV” action. This action is capable of converting either CSV or spreadsheet files to PDF.

Select PDF.co Operation

Configure Action Parameters

The next step is to configure the action parameters. Let’s fill the URL parameter with the URL pointing to our input CSV and proceed with the next step.

Configure Action parameters

New Email Notification Action

Okay, In the next step we’ll configure a new email notification action. Let’s select the output PDF URL from the previous step and use it in the body.

Add new email notification action

Result

After everything is configured, we’ll proceed with testing and invoking this flow. Finally, we’ll have an automated email containing the resulting URL.

Result Email

Upon opening this URL, we’ll see the output PDF file.

Output PDF

That’s how easy it is to convert a CSV file to PDF using the PDF.co Power Automate plugin.