Custom fields and PDF attachments

[Wladislaw Huber]

Hi Community,

is it anyhow possible to catch information´s via Butler (automation) out of an attached PDF file which was send via Mail to the board and filled automatically custom fields?

Thanks in advance

[Wladislaw Huber · Accepted solution]

Thanks David I will try it out. Didnt hear before of Docparser...

[Deleted user]

No problem.

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[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

Hello @Wladislaw Huber 

PDFs are complex, structured documents and Butler has no native ability to parse them to extract data.

You will need a third party product like Zapier, then use an extension like Docparser to extract the data from the PDF and send it through to Trello.