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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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psteff on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:08

RE: Tables in PDF files

That would be a wonderful help. Please implement. Thanks!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:07

RE: Tables in PDF files

A good idea that would very useful. If you use Adobe Acrobat (not reader) and the data is already in a table you can drop it into excel but it is not always perfect. You sometimes have to clean the data up.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:07

RE: Tables in PDF files

This is a very good idea and I hope will be considered by Microsoft.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:07

RE: Tables in PDF files

i vote yes

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:06

RE: Tables in PDF files

This feature would be extremely useful.

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

RE: Tables in PDF files

This would be great tool!!!

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Adrian on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:05

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THis would be invaluable to me

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Peter on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:05

RE: Tables in PDF files

For me as a translator this would be a life saver. So many times clients send you the source as a PDF file with lots of figures in tables. They don't pay for the figures, only for the text parts, but they still expect the figures to be in the translation as well. If there would be an easy way to get the tables into Excel that would solve a big headache.

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

RE: Tables in PDF files

A great idea. This would be very useful.

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

RE: Tables in PDF files

Too long in coming. he bain of my life!