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‎May 31, 2023 05:57 PM
Hi Folks,
We have one or more attachments (pdf, docx mostly) per record, and want to run a Boolean search on the content of these documents. This is similar to how you can search in Google Drive, Dropbox etc.
@kuovonne I saw some of your suggested workaround. Do you know if Airtable or any extensions / integrations have done this seamlessly?
Thanks in advance,
Vikram

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‎May 31, 2023 06:04 PM
I'm not aware of any native ability to read the contents of an attachment but this could be done with Airtable scripting. You can use a somewhat hacky method with eval() to import external libraries that can do these things and parse the result in your base.

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‎May 31, 2023 07:02 PM
Airtable scripting cannot look directly inside pdf or doc attachments. It can look at plain text files.
I suggest looking into third party services that can perform searches into the file types you want (or that can extract text into plain text format).
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‎Jun 03, 2023 07:12 AM
Thanks folks. I'm exploring a two step process.
Step 1: Use the relevant 3rd party tool to extract the Data in a structured format (e.g. Google Sheets).
Step 2: Use Zapier to push a new record in Aortab
