How to Extract PDF files data in SAP S4 HANA Public cloud

[munipkumar]

Hi Team,

Client has a requirement to extract the data from PDF files and based on the PDF data we need to post Accounting document on S4 HANA public cloud.

We could not find any standard solution for PDF extraction in Developer extensibility for SAP S4 HANA Public cloud.

Kindly note that we are using SAP S4 HANA public cloud edition, please let me know the possible solutions for this requirement.

[Raifloresca]

Hi there,

As far as I know, you can take a look at solutions like VIM (Vendor Invoice Management), OCRs (Maybe even a GPT is possible), OpenText, etc. Any SAP related solution that can scan a PDF file and look for certain fields.

I've only worked with SAP VIM. It has an integrated OCR that scans the received invoices for the needed fields and then a workflow is created for the new accounting document.

Hope it helps.

Regards.

[munipkumar]

Hi Raifloresca

Thanks for the reply. I understood your suggestion , but we are looking for any solution possible to extract PDF files from ABAP as part of developer extensions or from UI5 .

[Raifloresca]

I don't think there is an easy solution for that.

Take a look at this post: Solved: Get Data out of PDF - SAP Community

Regards.

[alex_frank]

Hi munipkumar,

Did you already look into Document Information Extraction? It's a SAP BTP service that you can call everywhere in developer extensibility, where you can call an HTTP API. This would be my start and I would just build something completely custom, if there are complex requirements that can't be fulfilled by the service.

https://help.sap.com/docs/document-information-extraction

BR,
Alex

[arroyoweisson]

@munipkumar 

Try looking at Document information Extraction, this is one of the standard api service on BTP and accessible via rest.

Overview | Document Information Extraction | SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Regards,

-Weisson