Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/23/07 12:32

"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message

>> Most of that stuff sounds pretty simple - but the PDF parsing might be
>> your deal-breaker.
>> You'll have to be a real PDF guru to do that.
>> Have you explored the PDF features in PHP?
>
> Actually, that's probably the easy part. There are inexpensive packages
> out there to that. What I would need is a command line application. The
> other stuff looks like the hard stuff to me.

Really? I thought you were a PHP guru looking for PDF advice.
If you can read the PDF fields into a PHP variable - what

>> 3 - manually take the data from the pdf and enter it into an order
>> processing mode and a database.

That seems to be your stumble step, right?

If you're not comfortable writing database code, you could try any of the
home-spun database classes out there.
Here's mine:
http://www.kaufman.net/bvckvs/redist/bvckvs_database.php.txt

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