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Neerav Makwana
Neerav Makwana

Reputation: 17

Google docs OCR on Gmail attachment

I am trying to store the text content of Gmail attachments to Google Drive. I followed steps mentioned here and got a basic OCR script working: https://medium.com/@aio.phnompenh/make-ocr-tool-in-google-spreadsheet-to-extract-text-from-image-or-pdf-using-google-app-script-c478d4062b8c

This performs OCR on the image linked in valueURL below:

var image = UrlFetchApp.fetch(valueURL).getBlob();

However, when I try to reference it to a Gmail attachment using:

var image = GmailApp.getInboxThreads()[0].getMessages()[0].getAttachments();

I get the error:

The mediaData parameter only supports Blob types for upload.

Can someone let me know how do I resolve this?

Regards.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 451

Answers (1)

Jack Brown
Jack Brown

Reputation: 5892

The .getAttachments() function returns a array of GmailAttachment[] objects. To get the first attachment or even the only attachment you need to do this:

var image = GmailApp.getInboxThreads()[0].getMessages()[0].getAttachments()[0];

Upvotes: 1

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