Extract Text from Scanned PDF with Zapier – Step-by-Step
- Setup Trigger, select Google Drive as App Event
- Choose New File in Folder as the Trigger Event
- Select or connect Google Drive account
- Select Drive and Folder
- Test the Trigger
- Setup Action, select PDF.co as App Event
- Choose PDF to Anything Converter as Action Event
- Select or connect PDF.co account
- Setup Action parameters
- Test action
- Extracted text output
We prepared this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots to teach you how to extract text from scanned PDF using Zapier.
Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard.
Step 1: Setup Trigger, select Google Drive as App Event
Step 2: Choose New File in Folder as the Trigger Event
NOTE: For this tutorial, I’m using Google Drive storage. You may also use other cloud storage as your trigger, just look for a similar trigger event.
Step 3: Select or connect Google Drive account
Step 4: Select Drive and Folder
Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the PDF file is located
Step 5: Test the Trigger
We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none
We’re now done setting up the trigger for this Zap. Let’s now move on to the action.
Step 6: Setup Action, select PDF.co as App Event
Step 7: Choose PDF to Anything Converter as Action Event
Step 8: Select or connect PDF.co account
Step 9: Setup Action parameters
Under Setup Action:
- Set Output Format as Plain Text
- Choose Web Content Link as PDF URL
- Set Pages to 0- to select all pages
- Set a Name if you want the output PDF to have a different name
- Set Inline to False if you want the output to be a downloadable URL
- Set OCR Language to the same language as your source PDF
Step 10: Test Action
We will now Test the action to check for errors if there are any.
Step 11: Extracted text output
This is the output of our Extracted text
In this tutorial, you’ve learned how to extract text from scanned PDF using Zapier.
