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Dropbox + PDF4me

Create searchable PDFs with PDF4me from new PDF files in Dropbox

Make your PDFs searchable, without slowing down for manual file management. Once this integration is active, it automatically performs a text recognition on the image contents of a PDF, and makes them searchable, as soon as the file is added to Dropbox.

Make your PDFs searchable, without slowing down for manual file management. Once this integration is active, it automatically performs a text recognition on the image contents of a PDF, and makes them searchable, as soon as the file is added to Dropbox.

  1. When this happens...
    DropboxDropbox
    New File in Folder

    Triggers when a new file is added to a folder. Make sure the number of files/folders in the watched folder does not exceed 4000.

    TriggerScheduled
  2. automatically do this...
    PDF4mePDF4me
    Make PDF Searchable / OCR

    Create searchable PDFs using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of Images in PDF.

    ActionWrite
  3. then do this!
    DropboxDropbox
    Upload File

    Search for a specific file by name. Make sure the number of files/folders in the watched folder does not exceed 4000.

    ActionWrite
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Supported triggers and actions

What does this mean?
    • FolderRequired

      Check a specific folder for new folders. Keep clicking to go inside folders. Please note: new folders added to folders inside the folder you choose here will NOT trigger this Zap.

    Trigger
    Scheduled
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    • FolderRequired

      Parent folder, like /TextFiles/ or /Documents/Taxes/.

    • Folder NameRequired

    Action
    Write
    • FileRequired

      File you would like to move. Please use the Search powered field to find the file. Otherwise advanced users may type in full path name using Custom Value such as /Folder1/Folder2/File Name.pdf

    • New LocationRequired

      Where to move the file.

    Action
    Write
    • FolderRequired

      Where to find the file that will be updated, or where to create the new file.

    • File NameRequired

      Specify the name of the file. ".txt" will always be appended as the file extension.

    • File ContentRequired

      Plain text content to append to the text file.

    Action
    Write
    • FolderRequired

      Check a specific folder for new files. Keep clicking to go inside folders. Please note: new files added to folders inside the folder you choose here will NOT trigger this Zap.

    • Include file contents?

      Note: File contents greater than 100MB will cause an error. Set this to NO to exclude file contents and avoid errors.

    Trigger
    Scheduled
    Try It
    • FolderRequired

      Where to save the file.

    • FileRequired

      Must be a file object from another service (or some URL).

    • Overwrite

      Whether we should overwrite this file (if one of the same name exists) or not.

    • Specify File Name

      Advanced: By default, we use the same name as the file from the trigger. If you need to change the name, enter a value here. The original file extension will be appended.

    • Specify File Extension

      Advanced: If you specify a file name, you can also specify an extension (include the initial ".").

    Action
    Write
    • FolderRequired

      Where to save the new file.

    • File NameRequired

      Specify the name of the file. ".txt" will always be appended as the file extension.

    • File ContentRequired

      Plain text content to put inside the new text file.

    • Overwrite

      Whether we can overwrite this file (if one of the same name exists) or not.

    Action
    Write
    • FileRequired

      File you would like to rename. Please use the Search powered field to find the file. Otherwise advanced users may type in full path name using Custom Value such as /Folder1/Folder2/File Name.pdf

    • New NameRequired

      What you'd like to rename the file too (without extension, ie .pdf).

    Action
    Write
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