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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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Padmakumar Velayudhankutty Menon on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:10

RE: Tables in PDF files

Would be a very useful feature to have.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:09

RE: Tables in PDF files

absolutely a must!!!!

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Rick on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:09

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I agree that having the ability to import PDF tables directly into Excel would be beneficial.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:09

RE: Tables in PDF files

Excellent idea!

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Mickey Cohen on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

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Good idea. It is about time Microsoft Office officially support imports of PDF Text format in all tools.

I use ABBYY to do such conversions, which works excellent in many languages, but, why have Microsoft officially do it ?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

RE: Tables in PDF files

Great idea

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Marcel on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

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This feature would be extremely useful.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

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Strongly agree

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Cees Manneke on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

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I use Nitro Pro on a regular basis to convert PDF datato Excel. It works quite well, but very often information appears in wrong cells (multiple columns etc.)

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Yoash Dubiner on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

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I use Adobe 11 but then I have to do a lot of work even use power query to put every thing in place