XL-Upload can extract the document attributes from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) files and PDF files in addition to AutoCAD DWG files. To use this feature, the attribute mapping needs to be set up in XL-Upload. The attribute mapping maps the attributes in the original files to the corresponding spreadsheet fields.
Open the XL-Upload application.
Select Attribute Mapping from the XL-Upload menu.
Click the field name that you want to map.
Enter AutoCAD Attribute values in the text box corresponding to the field name in the CAD title block.
Click Update after each entry.
When you are finished, click OK.
Add files to the XL-Upload Spreadsheet, and then click Extract Attributes.
The spreadsheet data populates based off the mapped attributes.
If you have a number of PDF files that have document attributes such as Document No, Title, Rev etc. in a consistent location (for example, based off the same title block), you can use XL-Upload to read these attributes directly from the PDF files.
Open XL-Upload from the desktop.
From the XL-Upload menu, select Defaults.
Set the Attribute Extraction method for PDF files to PDF Text Extraction, and then click OK.
From the XL-Upload menu, select More, and then click Define PDF Attribute Regions.
List the coordinates from which the attributes need to be extracted for each field and paper size. This can be defined directly using a sample file.
Click Define Co-ordinates using PDF File, and then open one of the PDF files.
Draw a rectangle to mark the Field Names. Update for each Field Name until completed.
Click OK.
After all marked attributes are listed, click OK.
Add files to the XL-Upload Spreadsheet, and then click Extract Attributes.
The spreadsheet data populates based off the mapped attributes.
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