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Re: Copy PDF

And, if your customer ever changes the process that creates those PDFs, you
may need to modify your parsing process.

Agreed with others here: Extracting text from PDF files is error prone and
a frustrating exercise.

- Dan

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We had a customer on IBM i who would only send us PDF's. We could see the
query name in the PDF!. We begged, they wouldn't budge.

Our customer service had to read the PDF and type the results into another
application. It was worth the money for me to read the text from the
PDF.. What a giant pain!

I had to look for certain characters in the string returned to figure out I
was on a detail line. I think it finally took me about a week to process
the report into a database file that we could use to insert into the other
system.


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