How to extract data from PDF file . . .
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Hi all, I'm not a programmer so please forgive my ignorance. I'm learning visual studio c# to write a tool for work. What I'd like to do is have the user input a wire # for a piece of hardware. The program connects to a database which has all the wire information. The program pulls the data associated with the wire #. The program parses the pdf file to get location where that wire terminates then it displays a diagram with the location highlighted. For example: User input: Hardware X Wire B File for Hardware X Looks like: TB XYZ Wire A Terminal Block 1 Wire B Terminal Block 2 Wire C Terminal Block 3 Program Output: T1 T2 T3 The graphic/diagram will change with each wire. I can figure out the diagram part. I'm lost at connecting to the database and parsing the PDF data. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Laura