One of the uses of J in our system is parsing EDI, CSV and Excel files and importing it to our databases (MS-SQL/Oracle)
Now, one of the files that I have not been importing are Purchase Orders coming from clients in PDF format. I have discussed it with the team that's maintaining the code for that and it seems that to import PO's in PDF format, they have to go through these steps: 1. Export the PDF file into HTML 2. Parse the HTML file 3. Insert/Update the databases Well, I found out that the parsing process is a bit mind boggling because exporting the PDF into HTML puts in additional complications to the parsing process. So does anybody have a suggestion? Can we read the PDF file directly into J and parse there? I guess at this point it's obvious that I don't know enough to ask the right questions so any suggestions or ideas is appreciated. Thanks. r/Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
