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Syndicate_Admin
2 years agoAdministrator
Power Query - Extracting Data from a PDF
I have a PDF document, lets say 100 pages for example, where 50 pages contain information I want to extract into excel format. The information i want is the client name and their address. The pos...
Anonymous
2 years agoNot applicable
The key to working with PDFs and power. Query is to make sure that, before you expand the table column, You sorted the tables in descending order by number of columns. So once you have the table column, add a column that uses
each Table.ColumnCount([Name of Table Column])
Now you can sort that column in descending order by number of columns. If possible, make that first PDF your example file. Now when you expand the table column, none of the columns should maintain their order, and none of the column names will be missing.
--Nate