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  • 1.  Import from PDF

    Posted 07-26-2017 12:00

    It would be great to have nodes that allow importing from PDF. It would be really great if the import could be done via a wizard of some sort that allows you to identify the key elements you actually want imported into columns.



  • 2.  RE: Import from PDF

    Employee
    Posted 07-28-2017 04:09

    Hi Rodi,

    Importing multi-structured data from PDF files is inherently a tricky and error-prone process. PDF files may also be images rather than contain any structured data and Dataverse does not include any Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities.

    We currently do not have an item on our roadmap to extract data from PDF files but we remain open to reconsidering this if it becomes a more widespread requirement for customers.

    There are a number of third-party products available to extract data from PDF files using OCR techniques or accessing semi-structured data from the files and exporting this as text/Excel files.

     

    I understand that some users have also looked at using the Python node with Python modules (e.g. pyPDF2)  that can extract text information from PDF files to create a custom node.

    Regards,

    Adrian