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DOCDATA extract in plain text

MEL, SQL, Oracle

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gnunemaker

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Not sure if I'm going to hit a brick wall here, but figured I'd toss this question out in case someone else has needed to do this in the past.

I received a request to extract the document text from a number of historical documents. This extract will encompass several thousand documents when all is said and done. I ran a query that extracted the relevant information into a flat delimited file, including patient identifiers, document creation and signing data, and the DATA field from the DOCDATA table itself. I knew going in that the data was stored with the formatting information, and now hope that I can get it cleaned up for delivery.

For the life of me I can't figure out how to get the Data field formatted into plain text. I can't find static start and stop delimiters on the RTF code that doesn't leave outlying information (I even attempted using a regex expression: (?<=\{)[^}]+(?=\}) in np++ that managed to clean about half of the garbage, but still left a number of /par/blahblah/b0 type statements).

I've also tried the obvious solution of exporting to .rtf out of crystal to either copy/paste or convert to csv or txt with no luck.

I may just need something as simple as a smack in the head after staring at this all day today, but if anyone can throw any suggestions my way, I'm more than happy to try them out.

Posted : April 19, 2016 11:25 am

ed_murphy

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I took a DATA field from DOCDATA, saved it as an RTF file and passed the file to this Powershell function and the output TXT file looks ok to me.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Asnivor/PowerShell-Misc-Functions/master/translate-rtf-to-txt.ps1

Posted : April 19, 2016 4:35 pm

gnunemaker

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Thank you for the reply.

I just tried that powershell script on a fresh extract of data to .rtf format and got this:

{ tf1ansiftnbj{fonttbl{f0 fswiss Arial;}}{colortbl ; etc.

The script doesn't appear to have actively stripped any of the actual RTF code. Are you getting a different result? Does your docdata.data field contain similar input, or is it clean? I feel like I'm just missing a step somewhere.

Posted : April 20, 2016 9:28 am

ed_murphy

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Some new code - ran on a standard CPS Demo db.

Output is a gridview with rtf and plaintext side-by-sde

==============================
$Server = 'localhost'; $DB = 'demo'
$SQL = @"
select ddid, sdid, data from docdata order by ddid, sdid
"@

function Get-CPSData
{
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[string]$Server,
[string]$Database,
[string]$selectcommand
)
$connectionString = "Server=$Server;Database=$Database;Trusted_Connection=yes;"
$CPSDBData = Get-DatabaseData -connectionstring $connectionstring -query $selectcommand
Return $CPSDBData
}
Function Get-DatabaseData
{
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[string]$connectionString,
[string]$query
)
$connection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
$connection.ConnectionString = $connectionString
$command = $connection.CreateCommand()
$command.CommandText = $query
$table = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$adapter = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter $command
$adapter.Fill($table)
$connection.Close()
return $Table
}

$rtBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
$list = @()

$Rows = Get-CPSData $Server $DB $SQL

$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
[int]$i = 0
foreach ($row in $rows)
{
Try
{
If (($row.data).length -gt 4)
{
$rtBox.Rtf = $row.data
$item = [psCustomobject]@{
Seq = $i++
DDID = "{0:F0}" -f $($row.ddid)
SDID = "{0:F0}" -f $($row.sdid)
RTFData = $rtBox.RTF
Plaintext = $rtBox.Text
}
$list += $item
}
}
Catch
{ }
}
$list | Out-GridView

Posted : April 20, 2016 4:24 pm

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