Please help, in regards to PDF and PHP

Mehre

Hello experts
I'm working on a project which has 2 parts to it.
One part (the easy part), is that i have to extract data from a Microsoft access database and display the information.
The second part (the much harder part that has me feeling like 😕 ) is that i have to extract data from a pdf document and display it.
I only want specific data and not everything off of the pdf document. The information that i'm looking for is all in a table on the pdf document. Now if there is a way that i can directly extract the data from the pdf document then wonderful, how do i do it?
if not, i have to convert the pdf document into an excel spreadsheet or somehow import it to the database (all automated, so no manual work - other than the programming of course) and then get the specified data from there.
I really need assistance, i'm about to go . I feel as if my brain is about to explode 🙁

thank you gratly for anyone assistance

hope this made sense

cheers

dp777

I do not believe that there is really a way to do that. ( if you find a way please share! ) My experience with that has had no success, it came down to translating it all down to binary and then attempting to rebuild from there, so I opted to pass on that. Hopefully someone with more wisdom can shine the light on how or if this can indeed be done!

Mehre

Yeah thats what i'm thinking also. It seems impossible, but nothing actually is IMPOSSIBLE. if u get what i mean.

the only other way that i'm thinking is somehow importing the tables into MS Access database, but that either isn't as simple as it sounds. Especially since everything has to be automated, no one here knows how to do anything on comps, so the PHP script has to do the simplest of things. which isn't that simple when you try and code it. This pdf for instance.

assistance pleeeeeeeease i'm 😕 as hell

Mehre

Originally posted by dp777
My experience with that has had no success, it came down to translating it all down to binary and then attempting to rebuild from there

can u automate this part using code at all or is this all manual work. See, a new pdf document gets released every month or so, thats why automation is important, especially after i leave.

dp777

If the pdf is in the same format each time you recieve it, I do not see why it could not be automated. However, I'm not sure you really want to dig through the binary, you'll have to go through and figure out which part is real data and which part of it is just pdf junk that can be tossed a side. There has got to be a better way... I'm going to run another google search and see what I can come up with.