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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)

Javier on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:07

RE: Tables in PDF files

Early 2018? Month?

Nate on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:02

RE: Tables in PDF files

Any update on the ETA for this? Really looking forward to it!

Mike Honey on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:53

RE: Tables in PDF files

While we wait for a Connector solution (which would be great), I'm having some success at this task using the open-source Tabula project.

http://tabula.technology/

It has supporting automation/scripting projects (e.g. tabula-py for python), but in almost all cases manual extract design and post-extract data transformation is required. I guess this is due to the imprecise nature of PDF tables.