topic Does Autoloader supports loading PDF files? in Data Engineering

Does Autoloader supports loading PDF files?

yit — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:04:03 GMT

I need to process PDF files already ingested. Based on the documentation, Autoloader does not support PDFs - or am I missing something?

Also, I've found this sparkPDF library in other discussions in the community, but from what I see it's only for batch streaming?

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:06:16 GMT

Hi @yit ,

Nope, here you can find supported types:

yit — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:08:11 GMT

Any suggestions how to handle PDFs? @szymon_dybczak

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:12:05 GMT

You can try to treat pdf as binary source format as suggested in below article.