PDF Connector: table on multiple pages

[marcodea]

I'm trying to import data from a PDF file, but a table bigger than one page is imported in Power Bi as multiple tables.

Is there any workaround?

[v-juanli-msft]

Hi @marcodea 

I make a test for your scenario:

I have a pdf with a large table in 23 pages (from page 1 to page 23),

1.open Edit queries, create a new blank query, 

2.open its Advanced editor, write the code

let
Source = Pdf.Tables(File.Contents("C:\desktop\case\5\5.10\date.pdf"), [StartPage=1, EndPage=23])
in
Source

3.Expand "Data" column

4.Filter "Kind" column to keep only "Table"

5.Then we will get all data in one table

I could remove some useless columns,keep only last two columns, then "Use the first row as headers"

Best Regards
Maggie

Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
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[rkelly12]

You are a lifesaver! This just saved me hours of cleanup on multiple pdfs. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Awesome Magie! Gold tip!

Working around a problem like this, without result till see this. Anyway, still having an issue: on my pdf file, the table as date on it , but on two different rows:

Example:

2019-07

23

when it should be 2019-07-23 on the same row. Any expert advice on how to solve this?

Thks!

TS

[marcodea]

V @v-juanli-msft ,

thanks for your answer, I've learned something new.

If I have understood well, this code doesn't solve my case since I have more the one table in the same PDF and I don't know in advance the page of each table.

Regards