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Anonymous
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Hi all, i was hoping for a little advice, any help would be greatly appreciated!

What is the best way to send information from a PDF document TO a database like excel? I was hoping i could use exported .csv files from a response file but that's not controlable enough, as when you edit the excel spreadsheet and update the file with the csv file, all amends are stripped out and replaced, unfortunately editing the response file is not really an option! and xml not working the way i want it to as its not mapping properly for some reason! Works perfectly on single files but not on the response file.

I am hooked up to a database via ADBC that pulls in the addresses from "Microsoft Access" that works perfectly, can this be done the other way round using ADBC so when i click a button it goes into the database. If i can get a definate answer that this is where i need to persue then i will investigate it further!

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, Windows
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Access is the same as any SQL data base. You can query, post, and get data.

There is a lot coding that may need to be done. See [url=http://forms.stefcameron.com/]Stefan Cameron on Forms] blog. You will have to serch for 'dataconnection' to find all the articles.

George Kaiser

smitchell15 (not verified)
Hi gkaiseril,

Thats brilliant, thanx for the quick reply, at least i know there is away to explore. And thanx for the tip on dataconnection. I'l get searching and see what i can find! Thankyou.