The task: A customer wants to switch from manually published catalogues to a database driven publishing system. To speed up this process the data should be extracted as complete as possible from the existing catalogue(s).

It is not always possible to retrieve such data using the original authoring applications like QuarkXPress, InDesign or even Word. In such cases PDF can be a valuable transformational format.

Our Acrobat Plug-In MVPDFDataExtractor is designed to fulfill such data extraction jobs. It can be customized to the layout and specifics of a given catalogue.

The Plug-In analyses one or more PDF files, identifies the article or spare part numbers and combines them with text and / or hierarchical information.

The result is written into a structured file which then can be used for a database import.

The task: A customer wants to switch from manually published catalogues to a database driven publishing system. To speed up this process the data should be extracted as complete as possible from the existing catalogue(s).

It is not always possible to retrieve such data using the original authoring applications like QuarkXPress, InDesign or even Word. In such cases PDF can be a valuable transformational format.

Our Acrobat Plug-In MVPDFDataExtractor is designed to fulfill such data extraction jobs. It can be customized to the layout and specifics of a given catalogue.

The Plug-In analyses one or more PDF files, identifies the article or spare part numbers and combines them with text and / or hierarchical information.

The result is written into a structured file which then can be used for a database import.

MVPDFDataExtractor is a tool to export structured data from PDF documents, e.g. statistical, medical or financial reports that are available and/or archived as PDF files only.

MVPDDataExtractor was originally developed for a medical study on heart diseases. The statistical data was embedded as tables in a huge amount of PDF reports. With MVPDFDataExtractor the researchers were able to extract the data very fast.

Meanwhile the tool has been used in various projects. MVPDDataExtractor can be adapted to the layout, structure and other factors of the source documents. It works on single files and on entire folders as well and it is designed to process a huge amount of PDF files.