PDF to text plugin timeout

sawan · 2024-11-12T08:01:21.156Z

Hello community,

I am trying to use this plugin to convert pdf to text , I have used it with my own workflow and it works only on small PDFs, I even tried it using the demo editor workflow to see if it was something I was doing, but it still to be specific times out around 30 seconds. example screen shot here, any idea how I can work round this, my testing has confirmd it is just this plugin that is the cause to timeout in my app as I am testing it based on the developers demo to test.

I have mailed the developers also and hopefully hear back soon, but that may not be the issue, the description says this plugin should work for large PDFs also, mine are only 10-30mb.
Any guidance please, I would be most grateful.

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Convert PDF to Text Plugin | Bubble.

tylerboodman · 2024-11-12T19:43:11.014Z

I the plugin devs for keeping the plugin self sufficient and not using external APIs, but my guess is their plugin is hitting the limit of Bubble server side plugin actions and Bubble timeout limits.

See what they say but I could see you needing to use the API Connector with an external API service. Easy to setup but requires $$$ to pay them, might end up being cheaper anyways than using the Bubble WU workload units the plugin consumes.

Or the plugins functionality could be cloned in a Google Cloud Function and you call that with the API Connector as well (advanced difficulty, not what no-coders want to be doing)

sawan · 2024-11-12T20:00:03.677Z

Hi, thank you for your insights and guidance, I was and am more sure now this is the bubble server side timeout and also agree API seems to likely be the best way to scale this, I came across two plugins that use API for this, one going to a service called PDF.to.
I am going to try that.
Certainly would be good if the server side timeout could be extended at least for this testing I was doing.
I really appreciate you replying also , thank you, when your stuck its great when help comes in.

tylerboodman · 2024-11-12T20:29:31.775Z

I think API Connector calls were extended to 150s since AI stuff came out, but the plugin actions still seem to be limited to 30s.

If you go with an external service and processing time looks like it will take a little bit of time, see if they offer webhook option where their service sends a request to your app instead of an action waiting and could possibly timeout. Maybe this is overkill unless you see processing time getting close to the 150s limit.

I use this service https://cloudconvert.com for many things but not sure if their PDF → TXT conversion file contents can be read by Bubble without using yet another plugin to read the text file

sawan · 2024-11-12T21:01:40.467Z

Thanks for the guidance, I will check this out on a fresh early morning mind and also share with you how PDF.to turned out. Webhook idea sounds smart, I will keep that in mind as my third option. Update you tomorrow.

system · 2025-01-21T08:01:29.230Z

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