Get Text Representation

A text representation provides a way to extract plain text from a document.

Text is generated for all document file types including plain text and code files supported by Box. This does not include image files as these do not have a text layer.

Text representations are generated upon upload of the file, similarly to PDFs and thumbnails. They are not generated for files larger than 500 megabytes.

The process

To get a text representation follow the following steps

• List all representations
• Request a text representation by passing the x-rep-hints-header with the value [extracted_text].
• Download the text by calling the url_template, replacing the {+asset_path} with an empty string.