The Document to Text step lets you extract the text content from a document file. We use deterministic AI models to parse content from a variety of file types, including PDFs, Word documents, and more. Document to Text step

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Options

NameTypeDescription
FileDocument FileThe document you want to extract text from.

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Outputs

NameTypeDescription
File ContentsPlain TextThe text extracted from the document.

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Tips

  • If the document has structured elements, such as tables or multiple side-by-side elements, the extracted text may be parsed incorrectly. We try our best to remediate this issues, but we recommend cleaning the output up with a Generate Text step if this happens consistently.

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Support File Types

The only mimetypes supported for OCR are:
  • application/pdf
  • image/gif
  • image/tiff
  • image/jpeg
  • image/png
  • image/bmp
  • image/webp
Excel spreadsheets and Word documents are parsed using third party libraries. Anything else that isn’t in the above supported mimetype list is converted into plaintext.