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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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ImkeF
Community Champion
7 years ago

Jam54 ,

to my knowledge, all tables would be downloaded and then you can filter after their content.

Just create a table with one URL in each row and add a column where you extract all tables first. Then add another column that filters the column with the list of tables (use Table.Contains if you want to search for a word in all columns)

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Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

Anyone know when this functionality will be available for power query in excel?