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Extract Text from Drive Documents with Foxit and Diffbot

When a new file lands in a Google Drive folder, it uploads it to Foxit for text extraction, enriches the entities with Diffbot and emails results through Gmail.

What it does

## Uploading and Extracting Next, the document is uploaded to Foxit and the Extraction API is fired to get the text. This is an async job so we check the status in a loop.

The steps

  1. Fire on New File in Google Drive Folder
  2. Download File
  3. Upload to Foxit
  4. Kick off Foxit Extract
  5. Check Task
  6. Is the job done?
  7. Wait
  8. Download Extracted Text
  9. Get Diffbot Entities
  10. Shape Data
  11. Gmail
  12. Make Email Contents

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