How could i convert a PDF file data after uploading it into report in readable form without using ADS ?

[former_member187024]

Hi.

I'm not able to get the data of uploaded pdf file in readable form using OPEN DATASET Statement.

Is there any other solution ?

[FredericGirod]

Hi,

did you mean you would like to read the content of a PDF ?  transform a PDF into a flat text file ?

regards

Fred    

[former_member187024]

Yes it's exactly u said

[FredericGirod]

You will need an external program for this: if your pdf doesn't contain pictures.

If your PDF contains a picture (if it was a scanned document) you will need a software to analyse the picture and find the letters ... 

in Unix/Linux system you have a lot of soft like : PDF2DOC  PDF2TXT  ...

you have also GhostScript software that could convert PDF into several formats.

and in the worst case, you will need a software making OCR

regards

Fred

[former_member187024]

My exact requirement is to extract the data from PDF file into internal table in readable format without using any third party software or ADS.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Only methods I found in Abap are part of ADS's API (e.g. some CL_FP_PDF_OBJECT->IF_FP_PDF_OBJECT~GET_DATA...) and usually return XML not Abap internal table

Else perform some google on pdf extract xml free.

Regards,
Raymond

[former_member187024]

Hi,

I'm satisfied with Mr. Safaya what he replied but still i would like to know if anyone has answer about it.

When we can convert SAP made smartform into PDF so it must be possible to convert pdf into any other format after uploading it into SAP.

Thanx.

[former_member211078]

we had a similar requirement in our organisation a while back. we searched extensively on the internet,

used GUI_UPLOAD & SCMS_BINARY_TO_XSTRING... but no use.. I also tried executing the standard report FP_PDF_TEST_03 on an ADS server. to our disappointment.. nothing came out from it.

I suggest u to convert the pdf into excel from the third party software and then read the data from excel file.