https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/PDF-data-source-in-Talend/m-p/2204990#M5638 Hello, <BR />A widely popular format for storing information is pdf. Is there any connector that can be used to read the content of pdf file in Talend? <BR />Regards, <BR />SAmil Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:19:40 GMT Anonymous 2024-11-16T13:19:40Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/PDF-data-source-in-Talend/m-p/2204990#M5638 Hello, <BR />A widely popular format for storing information is pdf. Is there any connector that can be used to read the content of pdf file in Talend? <BR />Regards, <BR />SAmil Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:19:40 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/PDF-data-source-in-Talend/m-p/2204990#M5638 Anonymous 2024-11-16T13:19:40Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/PDF-data-source-in-Talend/m-p/2204991#M5639 pdf's are the nightmare data source for all ETL tools. Unfortunately Talend is not the exception. <BR />Often, a PDF is represented as a single image. This means that to retrieve any information from the "text" of the PDF, you would have to implement OCR routines. This is not a small task and getting all of the data from a PDF correctly is a big risk of this design. <BR />if you have thousands of PDF's that must be entered to the DB it *might* be worth it to implement OCR and integrate this into a Talend job. My advice is to try very hard to get your data in a machine readable format, and understand what you're getting into if you agree to parse PDF files. Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:35:59 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/PDF-data-source-in-Talend/m-p/2204991#M5639 Anonymous 2010-08-03T00:35:59Z