Does Autoloader supports loading PDF files?

[yit]

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 · Accepted solution]

Hi @yit ,

Nope, here you can find supported types:

[yit]

Any suggestions how to handle PDFs? @szymon_dybczak 

[szymon_dybczak · Accepted solution]

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

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