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Advocate IITurn an image into a report
LisaHoffer,
You are able to display image by setting data category of an image column to Image URL, there is a similar thread for your reference.
However, it is not possible to extract data from image or PDF and use PDF/image as data source in Power BI. Some ideas about this issue have been submitted in Power BI ideas forum, please vote them up.
Support Pulling Images when using a webpage as a data connection
Allow PDF to be added to extract data
As a workaround for your issue, you can use online tools to extract data from PDF/image to file, then connect to file in Power BI Desktop.
https://docparser.com/blog/extract-data-from-pdf/
https://medium.com/@CharlesBordet/how-to-extract-and-clean-data-from-pdf-files-in-r-da11964e252e
https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/
Regards,
Lydia
Advocate IILydia, I appreciate the response, but neither of these links applies to what I am looking to do, nor am I trying to extract data from a PDF. I want to create a report (actually already have one) and use an image or PDF of one of our communities as the custom graphic showing different results from the report on the map. I finally found the "Engine Diagnostic" report on the Power BI site yesterday, but there is no information/steps on how to create something similar...and for some reason it will not allow me to include the image here. It just says you can create interactive reports customized for your business.