Hello all! I am in the beginning stages of trying to attach PDF documents (deeds & owners policies) to a feature class in SDE. Does anyone know or have recommendations how to import the PDF's into SDE and make them into blobs?
ArcGIS for Desktop allows Raster data as attribute in a Feature Class and I believe there is no option to load pdf as an attribute. However it can be done through RDBMS and I haven't tested it.
You can use either Attachments or Hyperlink. It allows you to add raster, pdf and few other formats.
The main problem with placing documents in a BLOB is that you must access it through the database. I prefer to store a URL (file or web-based), which allows for more access modes. -V
