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Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

KaitlynAbrahamson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:53:12 GMT

Hello, I am having trouble figuring out a way to extract latitude and longitude coordinates from a pdf and wondered if anyone has experience doing that. I want to find a way to pull them from a document so I don't have to enter them manually. I tried the tool, Extract locations from document without success. The document is outputted from a program called Carlson and has anywhere from 2-50 locations in decimal degrees. Thanks for your help!

-Kaitlyn

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

George_Thompson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:09:04 GMT

You may want to look into the LocateXT extension within ArcGIS Pro: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/locatext/extract-locations.htm

I have worked with clients using this to do something very similar.

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

KaitlynAbrahamson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:34:10 GMT

Thanks! I have that extension already, but I'm not sure how to actually do it. Is there a specific tool to use?

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

George_Thompson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:56:23 GMT

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/locatext/extract-locations-from-unstructured-documents.htm

This is the place to start. You can also customize the locator for the documents for better results.

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

KaitlynAbrahamson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:10:32 GMT

Thank you for the info. I am still not getting any data to show up in the attrivute table. Maybe I need to go another route.

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

Mary_Murphy — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:01:53 GMT

Might also look at: Extract Locations From Document (Conversion)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Re: Is there a way to extract coordinates from a plat pdf in ArcGIS Pro?

KaitlynAbrahamson — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:41:30 GMT

Still nothing has worked. Just a blank attribute table. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to be able to extract them without physically typing them.