How to parse content of text file

[wibbler]

I have a text file on Google Drive. How do I get Pabbly to parse/extract the text contents of it?

I can get Pabbly to find the file, but not find the contents of the file so that I can parse it.

(Bonus points: The text file was originally an email attachment. If Pabbly can get the attachment from the Email Parser and then parse the text from the attachment all in the same workflow, even better!)

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @wibbler

We looked into your use case and there is no action event available to retrieve the text content from any file extension.

 

[wibbler]

This is surprising. You can parse an email, so I assumed you could parse a text file!

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @wibbler

Both the File and Email content are different things where Email contains Text-driven content which can be retrieved and extracting text content from an attachment wouldn't be possible as of now.

 

[wibbler]

Also the same for extracting text content from a txt file on Dropbox/Google Drive?

 

[Fagun Shah]

Also the same for extracting text content from a txt file on Dropbox/Google Drive?

Yes, you can not parse files.

 

[jarnow]

Any updates on this; do we have options for parsing text from files?

 

[Pabblymember11]

Any updates on this; do we have options for parsing text from files?

Kindly try using the Google Cloud Vision API to extract text from the image file.

If you're attempting to extract text from a PDF, PDF.co can be used for text extraction.

 

[Fagun Shah]

Any updates on this; do we have options for parsing text from files?

Can you provide URL of the sample text file that you're trying to parse?