# Avro Input

The Avro Input step decodes binary or JSON Avro data and extracts fields from the structure it defines. [Apache Avro](http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/index.html) is a data serialization system. This step extracts the data from an Avro file to be used in the PDI stream.


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