I was given a task to access monthly report data that are stored in pdf files with the same structure where each month lists cost, progress, manpower and a lot of statistics.
I am able to access a single pdf file and get those numbers for a given month, but I am struggling to access all reports (12 for a year) and extract information to display variations within the year such as cost and progress increase and more statistics.
Is there a way to achieve this in PowerBI? If the individual tables don't contain information about the month in question, is it possible to extract that from the filename (March-2021-report.pdf for example)?
If your question is uploading all the PDF's of a folder at a shot then you should be placing all those PDF's in a folder and select the folder from GET DATA option.
Once done you should be able to play around with the PDF data.
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I have numerous folder structures with a label name on each folder. Within each of the these folders there are are 11 individual pdfs. I have to merge these pdfs into one file. Then I move onto the next folder (which contains files for a different project, but same report format) and merge all these files into a single file. Does anyone know of an automated way to do this. Could powerautomate be utilized to accomplish this? Or can it be done directly in Adobe? I have to do this hundred of time and looking to improve the workflow.
I am not sure where to begin on this. I am looking into PowerAutomate but I havent been given adobe yet. Currently using Xodo by hand to drag and drop the documents.
I’m using Azure storage explorer to find specific files. The files loaded are very old and short by date looks not showing the correct results.
Is there any way in which I can give date range and it will show me the files in between those date range?
Is there any way in which I can give date range and it will show me
the files in between those date range?
Unfortunately no. Azure Blob Storage has very limited server-side filtering capabilities and filtering by date is not one of them. What you have to do is list all blobs in the container and then apply filtering on the client side.
An alternative would be to import this information in an Azure Cognitive Search Index and there you will be able to perform all kinds of filtering. I wrote a blog post about it long time ago that you may find useful: https://gauravmantri.com/2014/08/25/making-azure-blob-storage-searchable-using-azure-search-service/.
I'm designing a website for a small company and they want a database of documents where a user can search for policies. They hand me a rar with over 800 documents all within folders and with different files formats (for example a policy is divided into 3 jpeg files or a single .doc document). I trying to find a way to convert all these files to a pdf format without doing it manually in order to make a SQL database. someone have an idea?
I would suggest looking into Apache POI. You could write a module to automate the process and convert all of them into PDFs.
https://poi.apache.org/
I have an Acrobat form for work that our salesmen use to create proposals for jobs and their corresponding estimates.
The problem I am facing is that the form only stores data for one customer at a time. I am trying to get it to where they can type in a customers name (or job number, etc.) and it pull up all the form data used for that customer when that exact estimate was done (no matter how long ago it was).
How can I get my PDF form to do this (save current and all previous inputs) and not just save the current data in each editable field at a time?
I currently use Omniform and it does all of this; however, we are trying to switch over to Adobe and I am not too familiar with the software and how I can accomplish this!
Thank you in advance!
If you want to do all the processing local (without server roundtrip) you would have to embed all data in the PDF itself. There are several ways to do this but I would recommend using JavaScript. You would declare this at the document level. You would handle the blur event of the customer name (or other key field), find a match among the multiple customers and populate the secondary fields.
Assuming the data sits somewhere in a database, you would have to generate such a PDF or manipulate an existing template programmatically using a library. Not sure if you are looking to a programming solution or a tool.
Here is more info on JavaScript for Acrobat:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
We are trying to add a code to a multipage pdf file.
Let's say there's 1000 pages in the pdf file.
Every six pages corresponds to 1 account.
So those six pages need the same account number.
Then the following six would get a different account number.
ETC.
Has anyone ever run across something that would perform this function?
Can the pdf link to a data file, or would it have to use simple page numbering?
Thanks in advance!
You can programmatically add whatever you want to any subset of pages in a PDF using a variety of PDF librarys, commercial or OSS.
Can you be more specific?