Troubleshooting Lindy for Reading PDF Text in Google Drive

·Oct 24, 2025 12:19 AM·

I can't for the life of me get Lindy to read the words off of a PDF I'm uploading in Google Drive. Does anyone know the appropriate action to use? I'm using read file, but the text isn't being passed through. here is the simple workflow. I've tried 'summarize media' too

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Alon J.
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Hey Gabe! The 'Extract Webpage Text' action should work 😄
Gabe M.
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it unfortunately just extracts the first thing it sees when google docs loads which is something along the lines of "loading documents, this may take a while"
Gabe M.
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So it needs some level of time delay
Alon J.
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Hmmm 🤔 Do you mind sending me the task URL for that example?

Alon J.
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Hey Gabe! The 'Extract Webpage Text' action should work 😄
Gabe M.
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it unfortunately just extracts the first thing it sees when google docs loads which is something along the lines of "loading documents, this may take a while"
Gabe M.
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So it needs some level of time delay
Alon J.
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Hmmm 🤔 Do you mind sending me the task URL for that example?