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    zkrucz is offline Competent Performer
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    Importing PDF files with images into Access

    I amattempting to streamline a very tedious and frustrating process of editing pdfs(many, tens of pdfs/day) by attempting to import those pdfs directly intoAccess. The pdfs include text and images, and it is critical that the imagesare also imported into Access.
    Currently,each pdf is converted individually into Word, edited and then saved as a Finalpdf.
    Access doesnot import pdfs directly, but researching this issue, I should be able toconvert those pdfs into another format supported by Access. I am looking intoxml file conversion, but I have not come across a software that does this.
    Nitro Prodoes a great job of converting pdfs in multiple batches (entire folder worth)into Word, but in my case stumbles in converting these particular pdf filesinto Excel files because the pdf documents are not in a table format (so says theerror message).


    Recommendationson how to convert/import pdfs into Access?

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    You can either save the path of the PDF in a text field,while the actual PDF is stored on a server.
    Then open it via shell.
    or
    you can insert the actual PDF into an attachment field.

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