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This feels like deja vu. Didn't't we just have a discussion on this topic?

When searching for solutions I would forget the CSV bit - you just need to be able to read the PDF data.

You can use many different PHP/Python/Java libraries to read the PDF content. The either create a table directly from the data or simply pass it as text strings and parse it our with RPG.


Jon Paris

On May 4, 2022, at 12:55 AM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A client of ours has won a new contract and the government department
provides reports in PDF ONLY.

The information on this report needs to be entered into the IBMi and this
report is approximately 30 pages per day.

I believe Adobe Professional can do this but the results are not proving
to be inconsistent. A colleague converted a few samples and some results
were ... well lets just say strange.

Just enquiring if anyone has solved this issue and would share/advise how
they achieved it.

Thanks


Dob




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