Date:         Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:07:50 GMT
Reply-To:     John I <not@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         John I <not@HOTMAIL.COM>
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
Subject:      Re: How to Read PDF/RTF data in to SAS datasets
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

Peter Crawford wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:50:49 GMT, John I <not@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>Frank Poppe wrote:
>>
>>> John I schreef:
>>>
>>>> Richard A. DeVenezia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > "Susiyanto, Dwi (GE Money)" wrote:
>>>> >> Hi SAS experts,
>>>> >> I have data of account list (that is like text file) in PDF/RTF
>>>> >> format. If i looked in RTF/PDF , it will show the column and account
>>>> >> list (including header of report), but when i do to copy paste to
>>>> >> text file (by using editor/ultraedit), the column data in list will
>>>> >> be rows.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Basicly, I want to read the data of account list in PDF/RTF in to
> SAS
>>>> >> datasets directly.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I had tried with DDE link, it didn't work..
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Anybody knows how to read it.
>>>> >
>>>> > If you have RTF documents, SAS on Windows platform, and Microsoft
> Word
>>>> > installed you can try this precompiled SAS/AF program.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.devenezia.com/downloads/sas/af/index.php?topic=25
>>>> > "SAS/AF Reading Data in Document Tables"
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> silly question:  Do we need an AF license to run this application?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> No, you don't need an AF license to run compiled AF programs
>>>
>>> Frank Poppe
>>>
>>
>>
>>In that case, I could get the dialogue box to show up, I could browse for
>>files, but I could not get the app to analyze tables in any of several
> files
>>I gave to it to decompose.
>>
>>Any advice?
>
>
> PDF files or RTF ?

I was targeting rtf and word tables.