Automator is missing the action "Extract PDF Text"

You are looking in the correct place in Automator right? Have you tried selecting the Library and searching for extract?

If it still fails to show up the easiest thing to do is to re-load the OS. As an overwrite install none of your user files or settings will be changed and youll get a fresh copy of Automator (as well as everything else 😉)

If it still does not show up after post back.

I have this problem as well. I thought I was going crazy....any sollution to this?

As Frank said:

Hold ⌘R on boot and select Reinstall OS X Mavericks

Reinstaled....nothing still missing. Does it have something to do with region?

I am going crazy

That's strange. I have it here:

There's a python tool called PDFMiner that you can d/l from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfminer/

Install Instructions: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/#install

As this is run via a python script (pdf2txt.py), you can use the Automator Action "Run Shell Script" to run it.

FWIW, the Apple Automator Action is located in /System/Library/Automator/ so it is definitely part of the Mavericks OS installation. (The date of the file is 08/25/13)

Tony thank you for your interest. I see what you have in Automator and I do not have half of it

Tony thank you for your interest. I see what you have in Automator and I do not have half of it

See if you see it listed in: /System/Library/Automator/

You have your Automator library arranged by application - in that case you would need to look under the application providing the action, which is Preview.

You have your Automator library arranged by application

Nice catch. Didn't know about that! 😎

I can not belive it

Thank you Tony, great support and help from you and red_menace

Just ,since I am new in mac world, I do not understand red_menace coment. How it can be aranged diferently?

red_menace had the solution.

Look under Preview

or Switch view with: View->Arrange Action By->Category

Under the Automator > VIew menu item you can choose to view the library by application or by category. I think the view by application is more or less historical, since that is the way things were originally grouped.