Convetng .PDF file to MS Access database

[Jogi]

I want to convert a .pdf file to microsoft access database. How can I do this?

 

[MikeLacey]

Pardon me for sounding a bit dim here - I thought a pdf file was essentially a way of displaying a document.<br>
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Why would you want to convert that to a database format?<br>
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What am I missing here?<br>
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(I would imagine you could store pdf's in an access database without converting them at all.)<br>
<p>Mike Lacey<br><a href=mailto:Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com>Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[elizabeth]

Do you mean you want to store the pdf document as an object in an Access database, or that the document has spreadsheet-like data in it that you want to store in Access tables? If the latter, you might try to copy & paste the data into a spreadsheet, then you could import the spreadsheet as a single table (then normalize if needed). If possible I'd suggest asking for the data in a different file format. The native format would probobly be easier to work with than the .pdf that is output.

 

[codehead]

You could save it as a flat file (ASCII text only) and import it into Access. It is pretty much self explanatory, but if you want more assistance just ask.