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Amiregent
New Member
10 years ago
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PDFs as a data source

Would anyone have suggestions as to how one could extract data from PDF pages which can then be used in Power BI?
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  • mllopis's avatar
    mllopis
    10 years ago

    Amiregent,

     

    There's currently no solution to import PDF data into Power BI Desktop. This data source is in our radar, as we have received some requests in the past, but we don't have any immediate plans to add it to the product.

     

    If this is an important feature for you, please leave a vote for it in our UserVoice Feature Suggestions forum. Please also leave a description about the type of data that you need to extract from the PDF document. For instance, are you trying to extract one/multiple tables from the document, or plain text?

     

    Thanks,
    M.

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guyhunkin
Microsoft Employee
6 years ago

Hi,

My team is currently working on this. I hope the PDF connector in Excel will be available for Office 365 subscribers earlier next year.

Guy

- Excel Team

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dverliefden
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Hello,
Is there an update on the availability of the M-language function pdf.tables() in Excel?

Last reply was 'early 2020', today it is end April 2020?

Thx.

Best regards,

Dirk