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vanessafvg
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pdf as a data source?

Just wondering if anyone has successfully set up a process to extract from a pdf?

 

TIA





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v-ljerr-msft
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Hi @vanessafvg,

 

Here is a similar thread in which some solutions are mentioned there. Could you go to check if it helps? Smiley Happy

 

Other references:

Idea of importing Table s in PDF files

Import Data from PDF using Power Query

 

Regards

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v-ljerr-msft
Employee
Employee

Hi @vanessafvg,

 

Here is a similar thread in which some solutions are mentioned there. Could you go to check if it helps? Smiley Happy

 

Other references:

Idea of importing Table s in PDF files

Import Data from PDF using Power Query

 

Regards

There is no way to directly process from a PDF, but you could use an outside (free) tool like Tabula to extract to CSV as described in this post: https://dataveld.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/power-bi-analytics-challenge-part-2-processing-data-from-a...

 

If you would like to use R, you could also try packages such as pdftools or tm.

@deldersveld r sounds like a good posssiblity as i am assuming you can automate it, @v-ljerr-msft this i did see but it doesn't look automatable.

 

I did vote on the idea link, that would be great functionality, thanks all





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did you find a way to automate the process of importing the PDF Data?

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