The script will keep going until Google Docs shows a message saying it cannot read the text for that file format. How to extract text from a document inside an .xlsx file in Google Drive Jun 16, 2023 — If you are copying and pasting from a document in a Google Drive account, using the copy and paste interface inside a file, then the Google Drive document might contain a XLSX file. This could mean that the document contains a section that is already XLSX data, but that it has been written to the file using Google Sheets. Note on extracting text from an image: it can happen that an image in a document is an .jpg file. If it is done so, you can safely extract the text from the image using Google Drive, since Google Drive stores all the data in an image format. How to extract text from PDF.pdf files in Google Drive Aug 04, 2023 — The following CSU Script is designed to extract the text from .pdf document in a Google Drive account. The script will read in the text file, and will check each paragraph in the file to extract the relevant text content. Thus, it will extract all text from the document and save it into the same directory. How to find text in an Excel Spreadsheet Sep 05, 2023 — The following CSU Script is designed to extract the text, as formatted into text strings, from an Excel Spreadsheet in a Google Drive account. By reading the sheet, the script will read in the text and extract the relevant text and corresponding data as text strings. The script will then import the text string as a .csv file. You can download the code of Excel spreadsheet here. The script will read in the text as a .csv file and save it to the same folder from which you opened the spreadsheet. The script will check the syntax of text strings for possible error. If error is detected, the script will abort and the script will not exit. How to extract text from HTML Aug 01, 2023 — This script will extract the text from a page of an HTML 5 document. You can use any document hosting service that can load HTML. If the page is a Google Drive document, it will extract the text from the page into a .csv file.