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.

The Problem: Consistent meta data like Author, Title, Keywords or custom data should be inserted into a huge amount of PDF documents. The Acrobat Plug-In MVPDFMetaNormalizer is made for this task.

Information to create the meta data can be defined in an external source like a text file with e.g. file names and data. If necessary, the information can be retrieved directly from the PDF files as well, using typographic or semantic criteria e.g. some text in the first page or in some header or footer.

The plug-in can also create custom meta data. Such data can then be serched directly with the Acrobat full text search engine.

The Plug-In works with an input folder and its sub folders. It creates an identical folder system in a output folder and saves the processed files there as appropriate. 

The plug-in creates a log file with information about the processed files and the inserted meta data.

MVPDFMetaNormalizer can be customized to perfectly fit your needs.