Original Thread: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
A couple of times I've heard people mention reading in PDF files using FileToStr and I want to know more about reading and extracting data from PDF files. I do a lot of data conversion and interface work with lots of file formats, but I've not been very successful at importing and extracting data from PDF reports. Obviously a scanned image saved as a PDF would have to be ocr'd first, but is there is a reliable way to extract data from PDF reports and if so, how? I'm sure I don't know all the ends and outs of the PDF format, but when I try, I seem to get a strange mix of formatting details and data combined in a random way.
Am I being thick here or is there really a way that I can get any PDF file from any client and then successfully extract the data elements from that format?
I'm prepared to be thought of as stupid but be gentle! :)
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. Email: paul@tpcqpc.com
-----Original Message----- From: Brant E. Layton [mailto:dcci@futureone.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 3:17 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
|My experience was moving PDF files in and out of SQLServer tables - |found an abrupt truncation at the 16,777,184 mark...
Brant Layton| |480.964.1316| On 4/26/2017 12:57 PM, profoxtech-request@leafe.com wrote:
RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
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