C# and pdf files

I haved written a few programs in the past that process reports (intended for people) to get the data for use by computers. One time when I was employed by Lockheed I wrote a program that parsed manufacturing instructions for how to build aircraft. Unfortunately processng data intended for people is often much more work than we would like. Hopefully it will be worth the time you spend and/or whatever else it costs you.

Until a few years ago, the format of PDF files were proprietary but a few years ago the format has become publicaly available and there is software available for reading and writing data in the PDF format. So you need to get some software that can read PDF files. I am not familiar with the details of PDF files and the format of them.

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
I haved written a few programs in the past that process reports (intended for people) to get the data for use by computers. One time when I was employed by Lockheed I wrote a program that parsed manufacturing instructions for how to build aircraft. Unfortunately processng data intended for people is often much more work than we would like. Hopefully it will be worth the time you spend and/or whatever else it costs you.

Until a few years ago, the format of PDF files were proprietary but a few years ago the format has become publicaly available and there is software available for reading and writing data in the PDF format. So you need to get some software that can read PDF files. I am not familiar with the details of PDF files and the format of them.