PDF documents are used at many stages of modern business workflows, often serving as the format of choice for invoices, reports, legal contracts, and other critical documents. While PDFs are ideal for preserving content integrity and a particular visual layout, their structure makes automated data extraction challenging. For organizations engaged in data integration and ETL, unlocking information contained in PDFs is a necessity—and this is where the MapForce PDF Extractor comes in.

The MapForce PDF Extractor includes multiple tools for visually defining extraction rules to map PDF data to other formats. One that is particularly useful for zeroing in on specific content is text search. Here’s how it works – including a video demo.