PDF to Text to Database

Ok this sounds crazy. I'm working in an outsourcing company and our client just dont want to send us the softcopy instead a stupid pdf format everyday.

Now im getting sick of pdf format in a sense that i can't search a word from it and it's hard to organize. It's getting out of hand. I decided to make a database out of it. If it was on an excel or word format, It would be easy since i'll just copy and paste it to access. Problem is I need to convert the pdf to text before I can even add it to the database.

This is on a daily basis OMG. Can somebody point me first to a good pdf to text converter that is free. :D Google is failing me. Gotta spend 50$ on the software.

Anyway, is there a good component that i can find so that (if possible) I can automate the converting within my app and will automatically add it to the database?

Has anybody of you tried something like this? This is getting out of hand really help me.

-zyn

google rocks
http://www.dirfile.com/easy_pdf_to_text_converter.htm

i have not tried it or anything

i found quite a few others as well

Thanks for the freeware. Now, im partly done. Well, I guess this is as far as it goes. I just have to manually convert it and paste it to access. It seems impossible for me to automatically insert the data within my app. I can't find a good ocx for this.

Thanks anyway for the help.

i googled with pdf to text freeware,

got may hits, don't know if any could be automated

I found this on planet source code.

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb...20981&lngWId=1

I haven't tested it yet but it looks promising to me. Anyway, if somehow I get a work around with this, I will post it here. It could be of use in the future.

-zyn

i just looked at the link, but it says you have to adobe acrobat program for it to work, not cheap to buy unless you have already

Yeah I downloaded it free but the program didn't work. It can't convert image files to text. I've downloaded adobe SDK and i'm still gettin on to it.