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Tables in PDF files

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Gogula Aryalingam on 17 Jan 2015 03:15:10

I have come across so many public data repositories that hold data in PDF format. Other websites have tables within documents such as annual reports etc., also in PDF format. A data source for PDFs or tables from PDFs would be awesome!

Administrator on 13 Apr 2019 00:56:11

The PDF connector is now generally available in the April release of Power BI Desktop. Learn more here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-april-2019-feature-summary/#pdf

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Comments (284)

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:04

RE: Tables in PDF files

Yes

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:04

RE: Tables in PDF files

OCR from adobe versions of pdf's from excel deserve a special place in hell from those that create them. MicroSoft should work out a conversion capability that doesn't require more editing that takes more time than the original document creation.

Keith on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:03

RE: Tables in PDF files

It would be a useful enhancement to Excel spreadsheets. Lots of information is sent by PDF.

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:02

RE: Tables in PDF files

Many of the data resources from my company and other industry publications and resources are available only in a PDF format. If Power Query were able to mine this PDF format, my staff and I would save many hours in re-typing and/or summarizing. Please consider reading a pdf format as a 'Get External Data' option.