>hi all,
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>just wondering if anyone knows is it possible to read in information from a pdf file. we have a customer who is sent a file from a customer of theirs and it is in a pdf format and they want to be able to import it rather then re-type the information in
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>~M

Yes, there are many tools (some free) that convert PDF to text.

See Re: How to copy Acrobat document text programmatically Thread #1091105 Message #1092395 and the whole thread.