# Extracting texts from Flatten/ Scanned PDF Documents in Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extracting-texts-from-flatten-scanned-pdf-documents-in-kibana/341351
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extracting-texts-from-flatten-scanned-pdf-documents-in-kibana/341351 "2023-08-22T09:59:28Z")
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### Author: ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extracting-texts-from-flatten-scanned-pdf-documents-in-kibana/341351/2 "2023-08-24T08:50:10Z")

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Hi @Anant_Patankar,

Welcome to the community! Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use fscrawler?

Another alternative would be to use [the attachment processor with an ingest pipeline](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.9/attachment.html). Have a look at [this related thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-the-pdf-documents/327987/4) for some useful options.

Hope that helps!

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