Can I somehow import a table from pdf to a UiPath DataTable?
I can do it via loading it to a string array and after that splitting it. But I hope so there is a better and more safe solution to get a table from PDF.
The easiest way is to use the Read PDF Text activity.
As it's often changing, it does really make sense to give you a tutorial here about how you add it to UiPath and what parameters you currently have. Overall all info you can find on the official detailed tutorial.
Basically this activity gives you the easy way of extracting data and managing it.
If the result is not okay you will need to switch to the OCR activity with nearly the same name. This one reads the data visually. But from what you gave here, I would not recommend you that.
There are many other activities out there, like extracting it into an Excel Workbook. So simply try out what you need.
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I am tasked to create a template that will be Filled up by Business Users with Employee Information, then our program will load this into the Database using External Tables.
However, our Business Users constantly change the template by adding, removing or reordering fields.
I am convinced to use XLSX instead of CSV so that I can lock the Column Headers so they cannot remove, add and reorder the columns.
However, When i query the External Table, it shows Non-ASCII Characters when reading XLSX because its in Binary.
How can i do either of the following?
Effectively Read Excel Files from External Tables
Lock the Headers of CSV Files?
What you have here is a political problem, but you are looking for a technical fix. Not a good fit.
The problem comes in two halves:
Somebody decided it was a good idea to collect user input in a spreadsheet, which it is generally not.
Users are fiddling with the input format, which they should not.
Fixes are:
Strictly enforce the data structure. Reject any CSV which doesn't natch and make the users edit them. They will quickly tire of tweaking the spreadsheets when they realise they're just creating more work for themselves. But they will also get resentful, so consider ...
Building a data input screen. It's pretty simple to knock up a spreadsheet-like grid UI. You don't need anything complicated in Java: Oracle's Apex is intended for exactly this sort of thing. Find out more.
However, if you are stuck with Excel as a UI I suggest you have a look at Anton Scheffer's excellent PLSQL as_read_xlsx package on the Amis site. Check it out. You'll probably need to replace your external table with a view over a table (perhaps pipelined) function.
Isn't there a way to list raw events from segment.com, with all their attributes, on Keen.io?
It seems the UI only allows me to create aggregations.
I believe you're looking for extractions. These will give you the raw data from whatever source they were given to. Keep in mind however, that the performance of an extraction will generally be slower than any other kind of query. Furthermore, doing too many of them can cause irate Keen engineers* to get on your case.
*In this case, probably me.
The easiest way to do this is to log into your Keen account and go to the Explorer. Click preview collections to pull up a schema inspector tool and sample events.
You can also run an extraction query in the explorer or any of the query SDKS. You can also easily download a CSV of your raw events.
Data Explorer Guide has more tips & tricks as well.
Willing to shorten processes and improve effectiveness of an activity, I am looking for a tool that would allow to inject some data collected on a spreadsheet into a document (word/PDF etc).
Basically, the idea behind this process is to give people a certificate for completing a certain course online.
Currently, once they've finished with the course, their get feed into a spreadsheet.
Then, I need to pull this data (firstname, surname and date of completion) into a PDF framework (certificate for completing the class).
Is there a way you could think of to shorten this process? A program/software/script/anything else that would grab the information from the spreadsheet (or from any other repository of the information) and would throw it on the certification template?
I completed a similar project a few years ago here's the approach I took.
If possible try and get the spreadsheet to come across as a .csv format as it makes the data easier to manipulate. Worst case scenario, convert it yourself, there's a number of examples online.
As for generating the word doc/PDF I'd look at using LaTex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) it is used in Academia to create extremely customization documents and allows for easy manipulation of formatting/design based on imported data. There will be some time spent with this approach but it would allow you to build exactly what you're looking for, goodluck!
I'm open to other solutions as well.
My issue is this. We have about 500+ and growing different PDFs that need to have certain information (company info, phone numbers, etc.) added to form fields dynamically. The reason this needs to be dynamic is that this information changes regularly and we do not want to have to update all 500 PDFs each time it changes. So I am looking for some way to set up the PDFs so that they all read from a single external source (could be something as simple as a text file) dynamically upon opening the PDF in Acrobat Pro.
I have done some on-the-fly PDF creation in the past through PHP, however this does not seem like the best solution here as the PDFs need to be edited a lot by non-programmers and such. I'd prefer not to go that route and just stick to finding a way to get a few lines of data into the PDFs they create.
I've researched this a bit and it seems... possible, but confusing? This is the best thing I could find so far:
http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/department48.cfm
But the three solutions that it offers near the bottom all sound convoluted. Just wondering if there is something simpler that I am missing. All I really need to do is have the PDF import a few small chunks of text. Seems like it should be easy...
I think you can give http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/679606/Filling-PDF-Form-using-iText-PDF-Library a try. Hopefully it fulfills your needs.
i have a report which looks like this. it will be in PDF format:
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the user will input all the different foods, thus every section like NONE, MODERATE, SEVERE will be a different size and thus i need to be able to expand the sections during run time. in order to do that i should probably slice up the image and add different sections during run time. i dont know the proper way to do it.
please help me with a suggestion on how to go about fitting the text in the appropriate sections (but also keep in mind i have no control over how many foods are in each section, the user will decide this during run time)
I would create an iTextSharp table for each of your results (None, Moderate, Severe) and write out the table sequentially, in the order you want them to appear on your PDF. Each row in your tables would have four columns.
I found these articles useful for creating tables in iTextSharp:
iTextSharp - Introducing Tables
SourceForge Table Tutorial
Edit
Sorry, I didn't see the vb.net tag on your question. The pages I linked are in C# - I hope you can translate. I found that most of the iTextSharp samples you'll find are in C#.
It might be worth using a reporting tool rather than iTextSharp for formatted/tabular data?
We use Active Reports from http://www.datadynamics.com/ but I am sure there are others.
EDIT:
It looks like iTextSharp supports html-to-pdf conversion? Maybe thats easier to render?
Just did a search and found this: http://somewebguy.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/itextsharp-simplify-your-html-to-pdf-creation/