Calling Nuance PDF Converter 6 Enterprise from Access

Question

I'm trying to automate PDF Converter 6 Enterprise in Access 2007.  The
product does have an API layer which was the selling point that got me to
purchase it.  However, the website is not helpful in the least and tech support
has me in an endless loop of forwarding me to various telephone numbers that
send me to useless voicemail.  After a lengthy stay in tech support ____ I finally
managed to get a PDF from Nuance that documents the methods available in the
API layer but only gives some examples in C++.  I am not a C++ programmer
but Nuance claims the API layer is available to any programming language
supporting OLE automation.  My goal is to convert PDFs to Excel spreadsheets,
capture the data and store in Access.  I actually have all the individual parts
working but I need to automate the call to PDF Converter API layer.  Does
anyone have a clue as to how to do this?  I can supply the PDF documentation I
received from Nuance.

Answer 1

Hello,

As my understand your question is off-topic in this forum,the usage of Nuance or PDF Converter API is related to third party technology, the only help we could provide is tell you how to call Nuance library in vba. To achieve this please go to Tools menu and select Reference, to add a reference to Nuance library, thus we could call Nuance method by the same way of you call anyother Office Object Model method.

Thanks.

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Answer 2

Tim,
Thank you for your response.  I don't believe this subject is off-topic as I am programming an Access 2007 application.  I have already referenced all of the Nuance libraries that were available.  The problem I am having is properly instantiating PDF Converter and determining the structure of the methods and arguments.  I am a long-time vb/vba programmer so I understand the Office Object Model -  I just don't have the Nuance PDF Converter specifics.  Since Nuance is extremely unhelpful I was hoping that someone on this forum had knowledge on this subject.