PDF reader failing reading PDF in Google Drive

[samhbarton]

I’m trying to extract information from a PDF saved in Google Drive.

I’m using the PDF reader using a file URL as an input, but it’s failing.

I’ve tested it with the Google Drive Reader node as well but that wasn’t working either

Workbook link: https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=e7JPLawSZu8UEdtD8R6qX4&run_id=Dv4RLPrnsBPt6SfixEiSmx

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[samhbarton]

I’ve fixed the issue. The link provided was for ‘viewing’ but it needed to be for ‘download.’

[Wasay-Gumloop]

Thank you for the update! For future readers this setup would work for Drive File URL → PDF: https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=gPVnazd3oN9x4K7psuKw9Q

[samhbarton]

@Wasay-Gumloop i also need to extract content from .DOCX files. any tips? Getting an unusable html output at the moment:

https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=e7JPLawSZu8UEdtD8R6qX4&tab=3&run_id=Xz8tVX5rEZ9GU9pDS7B9vU

[Wasay-Gumloop]

The drive link won’t work with the File Reader node since its not connected with your Google Drive account, it doesn’t have credentials to that. You could use the same approach above where you use the drive file reader node to output the file object and then pass that onto the file reader node.

If you’re starting with a Google doc link though it would be easier to directly use the Google Docs Reader node and pass the doc link.

Let me know if this works for you.