Google for “extract pdf to excel” and you get a few available products that extract pdf data to excel. You might be able to use one of them from the command line.
I haven’t done exactly what you want but recently was searching for extracting to MS Word, and there are utilities that do that. You got to pay for most of those and my requirement was for personal reasons, so I stuck to cut and paste instead of paying for a one time use.. Joe From: Reiser, John J Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:09 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Reading and parsing a .PDF into a form. ** Hello Listers, ARS 7.1.0 Patch 4 MS SQL Server 2005 MS windows 2003 Server I have a request from a customer to import a pdf file that looks like it comes from an excel spreadsheet (table format). Is there any way to screen-scrape or read a pdf into a format that ARSystem can import? I am hoping that we can get a datadump in .csv and forgo the pdf document. Since we don’t control the system that outputs the document I don’t think a webservice is possible either. That would be a nice alternative to manual imports or copy and paste to ARSystem forms. Thanks, --- John J. Reiser Senior Software Development Analyst Remedy Administrator/Developer Lockheed Martin - MS2 The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
