Auto-extract text from attached documents

[Shane_EU]

Hi, does anybody have any ideas how could this be implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.3? Thanks!

[jcarlson]

I think you'll want to look at the textract module: https://textract.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I haven't used it in quite the way you've specified, but I imagine it could be fairly straightforward with some Python.

I'm more comfortable with the ArcGIS Python API than ArcPy. Is this process meant to edit local file-based resources? AGOL Layers? It sounds like you're editing a geodatabase directly, given the reference to the __ATTACH table.

The ArcGIS Python API has a helpful submodule for working with attachments, and you could probably do it in a couple of for loops.

[Shane_EU]

Thanks Josh. Yes it's for a local file-based GDB not AGOL or Enterprise, and should happen at the point of attaching the document. I'll look into textract 👍