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6. Extract the sum or totals. If the record contains sums or totals at the end of the line items
list, the end of the Repeat step is a good place to add an Extract step for these data. After
the loop step, the cursor position is at the end of line items.
1. Select the amount or amounts.
2.
Click on the end of the Repeat step ( ) in the Steps panel.
3. Right-click on the selected data and select Add Extraction.
Alternatively, right-click on the end of the Repeat step in the Steps panel and select Add
a Step > Add Extraction.
Tip
This how-to describes in detail how to extract an item description that appears in a
variable number of lines: How to extract multiline items.
Extracting data of variable length
In PDF and Text files, transactional data isn't structured uniformly, as in a CSV, database or
XML file. Data can be located anywhere on a page. Therefore, data are extracted from a
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