What are some good tools for pulling data from PDF reports?

It really depends on the kind of PDFs you're dealing with. If the text is embedded as actual text, there are tools out there that can extract it bulk just fine. But if you have scanned documents, which are just bitmaps of text, that complicates things. For those, you'd need to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert those images back into text. Just keep in mind that no OCR is 100% perfect—sometimes characters can get jumbled up. If you have the regular text PDFs, I can help whip up a tool for you!

If you use Excel, there's a straightforward way to import data: just navigate to Data > Get Data > From File > From PDF. It’s pretty handy for basic needs!

For bigger projects, you might want to look into RStudio. It has some great packages like rvest and tabulizer that can help you pull data from PDFs effectively. Otherwise, you can always use Excel or Access with their Get Data features.