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I use Contents Contain as a matching criteria for several rules. I'd like to be able to access the text contents of pdf in a run Javascript action - am I missing something? I can't seem to figure out how to set one of the inputAttributes to the contents of a pdf. If I can do that, I can use some JS Regexes to identify and generate an output variable with a new file_name.

It's a bit weird but there's no metadata for the text content. If you are writing a script, the script will have to get that information itself. You'll probably need some special library or program to parse the actual PDF.

That does seem weird that the text contents are available for matching but not as script input. Since I have to go to an external script, I will probably just end up doing it all there.

Thanks.

BTW, I found https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftotext-man.html to do a pretty good and quick job of converting pdfs to text files. I use this on my Mac. A couple of notes with this utility.
1) I use the switch -l 1 which sets the last page to convert to page 1 because all the identifying info I need is on page 1.
2) In the docs, there is a little blurb that if you set the output file name to -, it sends the output text to STDOUT which is what I want