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Old Sep 24, 2009, 9:25 pm
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jpatokal
 
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Originally Posted by jackal
Can you get the data from the PDF? (I'm not sure how hard it is to extract text from a PDF.)
I haven't seriously tried it, but I have examined one of those exported PDFs long enough to know that it would be fairly painful to do.

I'd like all of my information to transfer--including everything that doesn't show up on the summary page, such as the notes I've input about each flight.
This, too, might be resolvable by building a little robot that logs in as you and slurps data off every page -- but encouraging the FM team to provide sensible export formats (eg. CSV, XML) and/or add the notes to the summary page would still be the easiest option.
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