Reading PDF using File adapter

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I went through the blog

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/07/31/xi-read-data-from-pdf-file-in-sender-adapter to read from PDF. Also I have got all the jar files reqd. I dont know how to proceed. Can you pls help me out. Where I have to deploy the jar files add where I need to use this code?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

Jai Shankar.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jai,

If your requirement is just to transfer a PDF document from one file system to another without any transformation,then probably u can follow these steps, else if you can explain your scenario,it would be helpful.

Do the folllowing:

1. Create a dummy Data Type.

2. Create a Message Type for the Data Type of step 1.

3. Create the outboundand and inbound message interaces using the Message Type of step 2.

4. No Message amd Inteface Mapping is required.

5. In Configuration , create a Receiver Determination, Interface Determination , Sender and Receiver Agreement as usual. But when it comes to Interface Determination, there dont specify any INTERFACE MAPPING.

Regards,

Abhy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhy,

I need to read data from the pdf document and convert it into XML for further processing.

Thanks & Regards,

Jai Shankar.

[moorthy · Accepted solution]

If so, use the adpter modules in the sender side to do the same.

In the adpater modules, you can read the data from pdf document and convert specific to your structure and then do the mapping etc

To know about Adapter modules-

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3bdc14e1-0901-0010-b5a9-a01...

Regards,

Moorthy

[bhavesh_kantilal · Accepted solution]

Jai,

Like pointed out by moorthy, you need to deploy to create an Adapter Module for the sender File adapter.

Just comibine the blog you have and the How to develop Adapter Module doc given by moorhty and created your module Archive and then deploy this on your J2EE engine and call the same in your file adapter in the modules section do read content from the PDF into your XML.

Regards,

Bhavesh

[former_member206604 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check out this thread, it has the adapter module code for converting PDF into XML

Thanks,

Prakash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

Check this blog also..

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/07/31/xi-read-data-from-pdf-file-in-sender-adapter

Sekhar

[moorthy]

Hi,

If you want to FTP a pdf file, then just go with this blog-

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/04/03/xi-in-the-role-of-a-ftp

Regards,

Moorthy