I know Adobe has a VBA library you can use to read data in a PDF, but it only works with the full (paid) version of Acrobat, which I do not have (nor need). I have seen other solutions that involve opening the PDF, using SendKeys (which I abhor) to copy the text and paste it into Access. Again, not a great solution. My advice would be to File > Save As Text the PDF file first, then you can read that data into Access and parse it however you want. I've never done any of this before, but if you really need a solution, I could probably figure something out. It would take me a little experimenting first, however.

Richard thanks for the quick replay, dont worry the work I have is only 5 blocks of info and I can cut n paste.  As you know I like letting the computer do the work as I drink my java.  what needs to be done can be done just thought access had some trick to do this.

Live long and prosper.
Juan

I'm the same way. I get an email every morning from my merchant processor for credit cards. It contains the previous day's sales, broken down by card types, my deposit info, etc. I keep this info in a spreadsheet so I can match it up with what my database says I should have, and then finally with the deposit info from my bank. I could just type in these 3 to 5 cells worth of data, but NO... I had to make an event so I can copy the text from the email, click on a userform in Excel, paste the data in, and then Excel finds the next available row, parses the data from the email, and saves the info for me automatically. So yeah, I feel ya. I'm all about automation too. It's just that I've never done any work reading PDFs. I've never had a need to. I export them to send to other people, and I print them. That's it.