Reading PDF data

myukassign · Post by **myukassign** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:50 am

Hi..

Is it possible to read data from PDF (Acrobat) files using datastage.

Please help me.

Sreenivasulu · Post by **Sreenivasulu** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:03 am

Without any adobe plugin for unix its not possible to read a pdf file in datastage. You can check that you cannot open a pdf file in unix so where does the question arise of reading it in datastage.

Regards
Sreeni

myukassign · Post by **myukassign** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:10 am

How is it in Windows installation of Datastage?

I am not aware of any datastage stage where we can read a pdf...

please suggest if you know anything...

Thanks in advance

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:46 am

Google "pdf to text converter" to see what your options are.