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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.

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The process

To get a text representation follow the following steps
  • by passing the x-rep-hints-header with the value [extracted_text].
  • by calling the url_template, replacing the {+asset_path} with an empty string.
Last modified on March 19, 2026