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l From the File menu
1.
Click the File menu and select New.
2.
Click the Data mapping Configuration drop-down and select Files and then the
file type:
l Comma Separated Values or Excel (CSV/XLSX/XLS),
l Microsoft Access
l PDF, PS, PCL or AFP
l Text
l XML.
3.
Click Next.
4.
Click the Browse button and open the file you want to work with.
5.
Click Finish.
After opening the file, you have to make settings for the input data (see "Data source settings"
on page220) to make sure that the source data is parsed correctly and divided into logical units
of data the way you want. Then you can start building the data extraction workflow.
Note
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Excel files saved in "Strict Open XML" format are not supported yet.
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PCL and PostScript (PS) files are automatically converted to PDF format. When
used in a production environment (a Connect Workflow process) this may influence
the processing speed, depending on the available processing power.
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Some advanced PCL to PDF options are available by calling LincPDF
(PlanetPress Connect's PCL to PDF converter) command line module; see
"Advanced PCL to PDF options" on page209.
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Extracting data from a PDF that comes from a Windows printer queue (a PDF
converted to PostScript, converted back to PDF by an Input task in Workflow) might
not work. The problem lies in the conversion of the original PDF to PostScript.
PostScript code is usually optimized to print and not to keep text searchable, by
maintaining character identities for example.
The rule of thumb is: if copy-paste from Acrobat works, so will data mapping; if not,
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