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Power Automate PDF-Extract Text Layer Failures

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Jon Hooper
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Hi,

I've been using the extract Text Layer for a  couple of months now with no issues, however today I have hit an issue with the following error:

ResponseSwaggerSchemaValidationFailure

The API 'encodianpdf' returned an invalid response for workflow operation 'PDF_-_Extract_Text' of type 'OpenApiConnection'. Error details: 'The API operation 'PDF_GetPdfTextLayer' requires the property 'body/TextLayer' to be of type 'String' but is of type 'Null'.'

Which suggests that the API couldn't process the PDF, but didn't fail gracefully as I can't see a way to capture this error and stop PA crashing.

Is there a way to capture or prevent this error or at least see why the PDF couldn't be processed? I have checked the document that caused the crash and it is readable.


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    Jo Hall Official comment

    The error message indicates that the document does not contain a text layer. Even though it can be read by the human eye it could be a PDF image

     

    One of the ways this can be handled is via a parallel branch and configure run after.

    Error Handling in Microsoft Power Automate | Encodian

     

    In my flow if the Extract action fails it runs the PDF - Apply OCR action and then extracts the text.

     

    If the original extract text succeeds it just sends me an email with the text layer.

     

    This now means if the action errors it will do this

     

     

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