Portable BulkPDF

In the digital world, one can move data around with several types of files. From simple TXTs to complex databases of several GBs, the options available for usage are varied. Spreadsheets and PDFs are among the lightweight solutions commonly employed for such tasks and Portable BulkPDF seeks to aid users by providing a method of combining the information stored in these documents.

Essentially, the tool allows users to read and extract selected XLS, XLSX, or ODC data and correlate it with fields in an existing PDF file. The end results are multiple Portable Document Format containers that store information from both original items. While this may sound like a great idea, one of the hurdles one has to pass when employing this program is that target PDFs have to have a certain internal structure for the correlation to be viable.

Specifically, text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, or list boxes have to be present in the target PDF, as the tool cannot simply migrate information into a bare or unformatted PDF. These technicalities left to the side, the application can target spreadsheets in both Microsoft and Open Office ODC formats.

Operations are performed in a highly intuitive manner, as a built-in wizard guides users through the three necessary processing steps. After proper source and target documents have been selected, users are tasked with correlating the spreadsheet columns with the PDF fields. Once this is performed, a batch renaming function can be employed to ensure output documents do not receive identical file names.

Settings can be saved for future jobs (program specific BULKPDF file formats), and the highly simplified process is complete once users click on the “Finish” button.

Summing up, the utility is a good option for anyone in need of a spreadsheet to PDF data migration software. It allows one to correlate source data with target fields and yields numerous output files with customizable names.