PDF to RDL converter.

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PDF to RDL converter.

Gunjan

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November 12, 2009 at 2:57 pm

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I have an pdf document which contains almost 10 pages. I have to generate the SSRS report of the same PDF. Is there a way to convert the PDF document to RDL report? There is no database interactions associated.
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stevefromOZ SSC-Forever Points: 43646 More actions · Answer 1

um, why? Before I did any work on this, I would ask if the users intend to, say, export the SSRS report to PDF? Maybe i'm missing something here, but it sounds like, other than consulting $$ in the bank, there is little business value in converting a non-data driven pdf document into a Reporting Services report, but then again, I'm not the guy getting the consulting dollars either 🙁

Steve.

Gunjan Hall of Fame Points: 3226 More actions · Answer 2

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thanks for the reply.

The reason I am looking for this conversion because the content in PDF document is kind of newspaper. Lots of editing and formatting is require if I type into SSRS. Other reason is it needs to be in the same format as the PDF document is. I'm not sure may be I need any third party tool for conversion.

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Gunjan.

becklery Hall of Fame Points: 3315 More actions · Answer 3

Hi.

I haven't heard of an automatic converter that will take a PDF and create an RED, not sure how it would be able to do that anyway.

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becklery.

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stevefromOZ SSC-Forever Points: 43646 More actions · Answer 4

It's technically feasible, in the end it's XML to XML. Unlikely you'll find any commercial utilities to do it though - RDL is inherently a format that is used to present extracted data whereas PDF is most often used as a publishing tool of static (e.g. word) documents.

Steve.