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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
But we're talking about emails that were scanned into PDF files. And the quality is quite poor. Plus I had to check for content and redundancy. How would you have done it?
The other issue is that the PDFs aren't all just emails. Each attachment is scanned too - drawings, label art, carton art, bills of materials, China agency docs, etc. The PDFs vary in size from 7K (a single page) to 4G (44 pages).
I'm probably going to have to go back over them again over the next week or so.
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I'd use OCR Text Recognition in Adobe Acrobat Pro to get everything into ASCII format, then go from there. I'd need to know a little bit more about the structure of the information, and the constraints with which to query before I could tell you exactly what to do, but generally searching ASCII files and populating an Excel spreadsheet with the data is a fairly easy task.