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. 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