In my limited experience, PDF is trouble. PDF is essential a printer
output file, in PostScript, encapsulated as document. There's lots of
info about fonts, geometry and there are letters placed in specific
places, not necessarily in the order you think, depending on the
application that generated the print image, and the printer drivers
used. It doesn't help that there are lots of different PDF standards
("I love standards, that's why I have so many!") and extensions to do
things like provide accessiblility or to slim it down for web and
visual presentation (vs. High-resolution for print pre-press).Recently, I was trying to copy one of my articles out of a PDF, and I found that the two snaked columns that appeared to you and me meant nothing to the PDF. Highlighting the text got line one of column one, then line one of column two, all the way down. Pretty frustrating. There are some smart applications out there. Monarch was advertised years ago Here's an SO question, with some possiblities: On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Paul H. Tarver <[email protected]> wrote: > Original Thread: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach? > > A couple of times I've heard people mention reading in PDF files using > FileToStr and I want to know more about reading and extracting data from PDF > files. I do a lot of data conversion and interface work with lots of file > formats, but I've not been very successful at importing and extracting data > from PDF reports. Obviously a scanned image saved as a PDF would have to be > ocr'd first, but is there is a reliable way to extract data from PDF reports > and if so, how? I'm sure I don't know all the ends and outs of the PDF > format, but when I try, I seem to get a strange mix of formatting details > and data combined in a random way. > > Am I being thick here or is there really a way that I can get any PDF file > from any client and then successfully extract the data elements from that > format? > > I'm prepared to be thought of as stupid but be gentle! :) > > Paul H. Tarver > Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. > Email: [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brant E. Layton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 3:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach? > > |My experience was moving PDF files in and out of SQLServer tables - > |found an > abrupt truncation at the 16,777,184 mark... > > Brant Layton| > |480.964.1316| > On 4/26/2017 12:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach? > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vC7V75QzA_PufEEFWj=z4_gd4ppt3yq_ftpncqlwx...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
