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I’m really not sure where to start with this one, which might ultimately involve hiring a developer, but thought I’d check here first. My client is an apparel company and has a shop management program. The program supports EDP and accepts text files containing order data. Customers currently send in PDF files that are always formatted the same way.<\/p>\n
Right now, a user has to sit there and copy / paste the data from the PDF to the shop management software which can take an hour or more for a large order. I’d say CSRs spend on average of 2 - 4 hours a day just copying and pasting data from PDFs to the shop management software.<\/p>\n
I’m looking for a way to take data from a PDF, extract the text and then format it for the programs EDP. Even if we could get 1/2 of it in there, it would still be a tremendous time savings.<\/p>\n
This is an example of the EDP format, which looks pretty straight forward.<\/p>\n
---- Start Product ----<\/strong><\/p>\n PartNumber: 5180 Size01_Req: sts_Prod_Product_Override: 0<\/strong> ---- End Product ----<\/strong><\/p>\n Is there software that will allow me to read a PDF and teach it how to create the output file?<\/p>\n Here is what the PO looks like that the customer submits.<\/p>\n Thanks so much for the help!<\/p>\n
\nPartColorRange: Whites
\nPartColor: White
\ncur_UnitPriceUserEntered: 8.77
\nOrderInstructions: Make sure this is printed properly.Last time we had errors with this.<\/p>\n
\nSize02_Req:
\nSize03_Req: 22
\nSize04_Req: 13
\nSize05_Req:
\nSize06_Req:<\/p>\n
\nPartDescription:
\ncur_UnitCost:
\nsts_EnableCommission:
\nid_ProductClass:<\/p>\n![\"PO\"](\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/3/e/d/3ed09b19214c73820916ec3db4ef6c4bc5d30e1c.png\")