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Issue with PDF thumbnail extraction feature

  • March 19, 2026
  • 6 replies
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We’re currently experiencing an issue with the PDF extraction feature and wanted to check if anyone else has encountered something similar.

When attempting to extract content from a PDF, the tool continues loading for around 15 minutes before ultimately failing. This is consistently reproducible across multiple files.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before or found a workaround?

 

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aparrish
Lucid Legend Level 7
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  • Lucid Legend Level 7
  • March 21, 2026

@Mari Clift thanks for sharing what you’ve already tried. Lucid has a troubleshooting article for this exact thing: https://help.lucid.co/hc/en-us/articles/17988548286100-Troubleshooting-Export-or-print-a-document#export-failed

If none of the four troubleshooting steps work, there are additional steps in this resolved thread:  

 


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  • Lucid Legend Level 2
  • March 23, 2026

Hi, I don’t encounter problems with exporting the content in PDF, and probably the links from Aparrish will be handy for solving any occurring issue.
Nevertheless, I see that you mention actually “EXTRACTION FROM PDF”, so do you mean that you are trying to IMPORT some of PDF content into document? 


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  • Author
  • March 23, 2026

Hi Victor
Yes, that is correct. We’re experiencing issues with the IMPORT of PDF content into a document (using the PDF extraction feature)


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  • Lucid Legend Level 2
  • March 23, 2026

Hi Victor
Yes, that is correct. We’re experiencing issues with the IMPORT of PDF content into a document (using the PDF extraction feature)

If you are trying to do it via File->Import Data→PDF, then I think multi-page docs are not supported, at least when I tried it last time.
I guess if you provide the exact sequence of actions, it will help to determine the issue.


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  • Author
  • March 23, 2026

Hi Victor

We regularly extracted multi-page exports in LucidSpark (excluding the last 2 weeks we’ve been experiencing this issue)

We start by importing the PDF, then we click on “import thumbnails” (see screenshots below)

1. Import PDF
2. Extract Thumbnails

 


Zuzia S
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  • Lucid community team
  • March 23, 2026

Hi ​@Mari Clift, thank you for posting in the Community and thank you so much ​@aparrish and ​@Viktorfor chiming into this thread!

I believe you have identified a bug, and I have reported this to our development team. I apologize for any disruption this may cause, and I will update this thread with any new information about a fix. Please follow along on this thread for updates, and post any additional questions or concerns below.