Oh. Its a PO alright. It can be sent as an EDI-850 in standard ASCII format. The problem is the client is giving us the PO with the bill of materials, some production notes, pictures of the garment, costings, prefered suppliers ... the works. They are actually providing us the style/production book disguised as the PO in PDF format. Getting it in excel would be more easier. I did recommend that they send each separately in manageable format but I am several layers away from the client. NOTE: Layers = Position/Job Title/Person ... so I am only on the "advising" and "fixing what is wrong with whay they have now but not too much or someone might loose their job" capacity. ;) Oh well, I saw the sample and its a mess when read directly into J. I did stumbled upon XPDF which can rip text and images from a PDF file and it looks hopefull ... theres just issues like how to automatically identify the exported images. r/alex
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Chris Burke Sent: Wed 1/28/2009 8:29 PM To: General forum Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Parsing PDF documents in J Alex Rufon wrote: > Oh, I did ask if the client can send the PO in EDI (way much easier all > around) but it seems that somebody from the client is saying that "we > are your client and you should be happy with what we give you". Cue > lightning and organ music!!! This cannot be right. EDI is a plain text format. If your customer is making a pdf out of it, then they are not sending in standard EDI format. Just call the customer and lean on them to send you the proper format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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