# Is there a problem with the "Extract Text from File" block?

**URL:** <https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709 "2025-10-01T15:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![TechWriterLouis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/user_avatar/community.mindstudio.ai/techwriterlouis/32/35_2.png) [@TechWriterLouis](https://community.mindstudio.ai/u/TechWriterLouis)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709/1 "2025-10-01T15:50:20Z")

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Hey, MindStudio team!

Is there a problem with the Extract Text from File block? When I use a variable, either as an onboarding or runtime variable, in the Extract Text from File block, I receive an error “No URLs to extract”. Yet, the block does successfully extract the text. Here’s a screenshot.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/mindstudio/original/1X/49f1478f4115959fbfd9609be5656f29c13f92d3.png)

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug?

I have an agent in draft mode in which its Agent ID is: d070f340-b190-4ec5-ac20-5cdeb5abe35d.

Thank you for your help, as always!

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**Author:** ![sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sean](https://community.mindstudio.ai/u/sean)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709/2 "2025-10-02T15:41:23Z")

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It looks like that run was restarted with `colorPaletteDoc` already filled with extracted text?

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**Author:** ![TechWriterLouis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/user_avatar/community.mindstudio.ai/techwriterlouis/32/35_2.png) [@TechWriterLouis](https://community.mindstudio.ai/u/TechWriterLouis)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709/3 "2025-10-02T17:24:58Z")

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This was originally an onboarding variable. But this issue also occurs in a runtime variable. I did not provide that text. The Extract Text block properly extracted the text from two PDF samples. But the error “No URLs to extract” displays in both samples, as if the variable entered to the Extract Text block was not a valid URL.

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**Author:** ![sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sean](https://community.mindstudio.ai/u/sean)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709/4 "2025-10-02T18:28:12Z")

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The user input that sets that variable looks like it has “Extract Text” enabled, so the value of `colorPaletteDoc` at the time the extract text block is executed is already the extracted text

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**Author:** ![TechWriterLouis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/user_avatar/community.mindstudio.ai/techwriterlouis/32/35_2.png) [@TechWriterLouis](https://community.mindstudio.ai/u/TechWriterLouis)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.mindstudio.ai/t/is-there-a-problem-with-the-extract-text-from-file-block/1709/5 "2025-10-02T18:39:59Z")

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But why does the error occur? It seems to be a showstopper in the workflow run where it responds with no valid URL.