I need to read the PDF invoice and verify the fields of it in robot framework

[mustafa02 (Mustafa)]

I have a PDF invoice and i need to verify all the fields like amount, currency, date etc.
I tried RPA.PDF library but it returns the below output which i cannot validate it in my robot framework. So i need another alternate method please.

C:\Users\4star\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py:1045: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host ‘food-stg.yassir.io’. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: Advanced Usage - urllib3 1.26.20 documentation
warnings.warn(
…[Match(anchor=‘TTC’, direction=‘right’, neighbours=[‘7.00’])]

[damies13 (Dave)]

Hi Mustafa,

Well 2 OCR related questions on this forum in 2 hours … i replied on the other question, but my answer might also help you

Help needed with formatting text from PDF

Hi John, Well 2 OCR related questions on this forum in 2 hours … I wasn’t sure if I should reply because I’m not an OCR guru, but I’ll tell you what I know. OCR is often quite flaky and the cleaner the image the better the results, I was surprised all your text came through with no incorrect characters, so your input image is quite clean A few years back I performance tested a system that OCR’d invoices from external suppliers, so to test volumes of invoices we needed to generate PDF’s i…

Hope this helps,

Dave.

[mustafa02 (Mustafa)]

Thanks for your suggestion but OCR will not resolve it, i need some library like RPA which can get the invoice fields and in output it returns in json values.

[falcon030 (Lukas Boekenoogen)]

Maybe my reply on another question can help

Help needed with formatting text from PDF

Hello, I’m using Pdf2TextLibrary to convert a PDF-file into text. The PDF contains a table-like structure showing days of the week, hours (worked) and status (approved). However, after converting into text, the formatting is not exactly how I would like it. It first grabs al the days (the first column) and then it seems to grab both the columns hours and status and put them in random order into text. I tried to remove or replace words and empty lines to get somewhat of a better format, but what …