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pdf as a data source?
Hi vanessafvg,
Here is a similar thread in which some solutions are mentioned there. Could you go to check if it helps? :smileyhappy:
Other references:
Idea of importing Table s in PDF files
Import Data from PDF using Power Query
Regards
There is no way to directly process from a PDF, but you could use an outside (free) tool like Tabula to extract to CSV as described in this post: https://dataveld.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/power-bi-analytics-challenge-part-2-processing-data-from-a-pdf/
If you would like to use R, you could also try packages such as pdftools or tm.
deldersveld r sounds like a good posssiblity as i am assuming you can automate it, v-ljerr-msft this i did see but it doesn't look automatable.
I did vote on the idea link, that would be great functionality, thanks all
did you find a way to automate the process of importing the PDF Data?