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MFester
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

PDF data automated

Hi all,  Hopefully you can help me.   Each month I receive a PDF where I want to take one table of data into Power BI. I can use the PDF converter and read the data no problem, but I have two...
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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

Hi MFester,

 

There is a preview feature that can take the PDF as the data source. Please refer to /desktop-connect-pdf. 

1. Maybe you don't need a PDF converter anymore. 

2. What's the "sort of date"? Where is it from?

 

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MFester
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

thank you for the answer.


I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. When I wrote PDF converter, i meant the beta-feature in Power BI.

So I can get the data in.

 

Each month I receive a PDF report with data for the current month. The report is exactly the same each month with differents numbers of course.

There is no indication of time in the data, but maybe I can add a new variable each time i load in the PDF.

What my problem is, is making it into one dataset, so that I can see it over time. Preferably I should just the new months figures to some sort of dataset and then it would run smoothly.