VFP PDF Shipping Data Extraction from Shipping Bills which are in a PDF Format
Budget: ₹1,500 – ₹12,500 INR
I have a stack of PDF shipping bills that all share an identical layout. Every field is labelled, and I need each label-value pair captured—item names with their quantities, shipping dates with destinations, invoice numbers with total amounts, and anything else that appears beside a label in the document. The extracted information must go straight into a Visual FoxPro table so it can be queried alongside our existing data.
The workflow I have in mind is simple: point the routine at a folder full of PDFs, let it parse each file automatically, and update or append the records in a DBF without manual intervention. Because the format never changes, speed and accuracy take priority over heavy OCR; a direct text scrape that respects the labels should be enough. If you prefer to use an external PDF-to-text library or an FLL, that’s fine as long as the final solution is driven from a VFP program (.PRG or .APP) that I can compile and run locally.
Deliverables
• VFP source code that opens PDFs, extracts every labelled field, and writes the results to a specified table
• A sample DBF (or a script to create it) reflecting the captured fields
• Clear setup notes so I can point the code at new batches of PDFs and rerun it without edits
• A quick demo run on at least three sample files showing correct field mapping
Acceptance criteria: running DO YourProgram.prg on my machine processes all supplied PDFs in one pass and produces a populated table whose field values match the documents exactly.
If anything here needs clarification, let me know and I’ll supply sample files right away.
The workflow I have in mind is simple: point the routine at a folder full of PDFs, let it parse each file automatically, and update or append the records in a DBF without manual intervention. Because the format never changes, speed and accuracy take priority over heavy OCR; a direct text scrape that respects the labels should be enough. If you prefer to use an external PDF-to-text library or an FLL, that’s fine as long as the final solution is driven from a VFP program (.PRG or .APP) that I can compile and run locally.
Deliverables
• VFP source code that opens PDFs, extracts every labelled field, and writes the results to a specified table
• A sample DBF (or a script to create it) reflecting the captured fields
• Clear setup notes so I can point the code at new batches of PDFs and rerun it without edits
• A quick demo run on at least three sample files showing correct field mapping
Acceptance criteria: running DO YourProgram.prg on my machine processes all supplied PDFs in one pass and produces a populated table whose field values match the documents exactly.
If anything here needs clarification, let me know and I’ll supply sample files right away.
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