can Clay look up files from Google drive?
Clay can access specific Google Drive files through our integrations: Google Docs: You can find documents by URL, ID, or title, create new docs, and append text to existing ones. Google Sheets: You can lookup rows from any Google Sheet you have read access to, including public sheets, by providing the spreadsheet URL. Google Slides: You can create presentations using templates stored in Google Drive and save new presentations to specific Drive folders. However, Clay doesn't provide general file browsing of your entire Google Drive - it works with specific files you reference through URLs or IDs within these integrations.
What’s the best way to read or extract data from pdf files
Clay doesn't have a specific PDF file reader integration. However, you can use our "Extract Values from Data" feature to extract specific information like email addresses or LinkedIn URLs from text data once you have the PDF content converted to text format. Our native scraper excels at structured data collection and AI-ready text extraction, but it's designed for web pages rather than PDF files. For PDF data extraction, you'd need to first convert your PDF content to text using external tools, then use Clay's extraction capabilities to pull the specific values you need. Are you looking to extract specific types of data from PDFs, such as contact information, or do you need to process the entire text content?