Extract tables from PDF - Microsoft Power Automate for Desktop Tutorial

Recently, there's a new action in Microsoft Power Automate for Desktop called "Extract tables from PDF". That's right—now you have an option to extract the tables from PDFs directly with an action, instead of having to go through complicated text manipulation to do it.

Is it as good as it sounds? Check out our video and see how you can leverage this new action to work better and faster.

00:00 Introduction
00:30 Extract table from PDF action
00:48 Output of the extract table from PDF action
02:44 Preparing flow to write extracted table data into Excel into different worksheet
07:10 Writing column names of extracted table into Excel
12:35 Writing all extracted table data into Excel
14:00 Suggested enhancements

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[liakat]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much.

[cjjr]

Oh.... We need more local content creator like u. Please share more tips and methods of PAD and it's usage to improve productivity.

[juannascimento]

the best, channel for Powe Automate Desktop, i'm learning a lot.

[juarezr]

Thank you! This will save me hours when trying to find out how many rows are in a table.

[gilbertogirini]

Compliments! Great job, really well done... thank you

[EnkhturDamdinjav]

Thank you. I face pdf files that contain multiple tables with wild structures: We have a table with 3 columns: Column headings + 1 row of data. This table is immediately followed by a seperate set of data comprising 4 columns. PAD treats them as a single table with 4 columns.

[daspike]

Thank you for this! It was very useful for me, but I've a question, is it possible in the flow, just choice the table instead all information, I mean, I just need the table with the info (Item, quantity, Unit Cost and amount), Can I obtain it?

[Smddlvvs]

How do we save all the data in single excel sheet and how to give multiple pdfs as input

[hyteqef]

Do you know how to extract multiple PDF at once using "get files in folder"? or is there any other more efficient way to do it?

[shakisalim]

I need to Extract the table from PDF but PDF table is not a table format it looks like table, i used extract table from PDF unable to get entire data, any other option

[SamsungA-wvbh]

Will this work for scanned pdf as well?

[geraldinedelacruz]

Have tried Extract PDF Tables action but won’t work if there’s a password in pdf file.

[arkapravadutta]

Can you please post the entire thing as a file so that we can download and use jt

[robertpizzin]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much.