how to read contents from PDF file in NetSuite

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

Based on the Slack conversations, it seems that reading the contents of a PDF file in NetSuite is not straightforward and might lead to complications. However, there are a few potential approaches you could consider: 1. Use a third-party OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service like Google Tesseract, Amazon Textract, or Microsoft OCR. These services can extract text from images and PDFs. You would need to call these APIs from your NetSuite environment. 2. Use a JavaScript library that can parse PDFs. One such library mentioned in the conversations is

pdf-parse

which can be found on npm. You would need to include this library in your NetSuite environment. Here is the link to the library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-parse 3. If you are trying to download a PDF (like an invoice) via the NetSuite API, the closest solution would be to work with the File from SOAP web services. However, the PDF would need to already exist in this case. 4. If you are trying to send a PDF via an API, you can create the PDF in NetSuite and then retrieve the file contents using the

getContents()

method. However, this method returns binary encoded base64 data, which is not text and cannot be converted to text. You would need to handle this binary data appropriately in your API. Please note that these are potential approaches and might not work in all scenarios. Always test thoroughly before implementing in a production environment. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******