LJ, I'll have to look into PERL as a solution since this will be a monthly import.
Joe, There is no money to buy a COTS converter, not even from Adobe. It's either using something like a perl script or get the source of the pdf report. 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 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Reading and parsing a .PDF into a form. ** John, I don't know if you know Perl, or have it in your environment...but I'm sure that there is a Perl COM module for a PDF that would be able to do things with it...:) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:10 PM 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 _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
