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PDF to Database
Hameed Shaik 
   
11 months ago
If we have pdf form, cab we bring that into database, in one of the video i have seen database to pdf we can enter details but can we do it in reverse
Sami Shamma  @Reply  
             
11 months ago
Hameed, can you be more specific about what you mean by "bring it into the database"?
If you're talking about having a method to open the PDF and store its location on the database, yes that is very easy. Richard has tech help videos and seminars that will teach you how to do it.
If you're talking about stripping data from the PDF and storing it in tables in the database, that is something completely different.
Hameed Shaik OP  @Reply  
   
11 months ago
I have seen a video where we can fill data from access to pdf, but I am looking for a macro where we can bring data from pdf to access and will the info.
Hameed Shaik OP  @Reply  
   
11 months ago
Yes the last one stripping data from the pdf and storing in acces table or forms  will it work
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
11 months ago
Access can't do this natively, but there are third-party utilities you can use, like PDFtoText, that you can run from Access. It'll analyze the PDF file, save it as a text, then you can import that text into the database.

NOTE: I haven't used this in a few years myself, so not sure if they've changed anything, but it used to work great.
Sami Shamma  @Reply  
             
11 months ago
Hameed I use ChatGPT, OpenAI to do this. It works very well.
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
11 months ago
Sami yeah, I do too... for one-offs. Still requires manual copy/paste. If you want to automate it though, you need a 3rd party solution.
Hameed Shaik OP  @Reply  
   
11 months ago
I think I did not explained properly. The below is link https://youtu.be/5e8nlRnJrTw?si=NSrtJhjcF5x5thEu.  

In this we can fill from access to pdf. The same should be in reverse. Copy from pdf and paste in access
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
11 months ago
No, you explained yourself perfectly well. I understand what you're trying to do. You're trying to take a PDF and read that data into Access. Access cannot natively read what's in a PDF file. So you have to use another utility or program or something else to convert that PDF over to text. Then you can read it in as a text file, but Access can't do it by itself.

With the other video, all I'm doing is having Access open a browser window which contains the PDF file and then using SendKeys to send the information into the PDF that you already have in your database. But you can't reverse that process easily. You have to convert the PDF to text and then you can read the text into the database.
Hameed Shaik OP  @Reply  
   
10 months ago
Got it Richard, thank you for the reply.

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