Using MS Access and a pdf or html or xml file, I want to be able to use the records in Access client table to see if the client name exist in the pdf or html or xml file.

Is that possible?

Regards

I've done something similar with a .html and .xml file before but I'm not sure about .pdf.

I opened the file and read through it a line at a time at searched the string as I went.

From memory it was something like this:

fname = "C;\path\"mttextfile.txt Close 'closes file if stuck open
Open fname For Input Access Read As FreeFile
Do While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, textline
If Instr (1, textline, "the") > 0 Then
...do something here....
end if
Loop
Close

implicitly you can do the same sort of thing with a PDF providing that the information you want is correctly identified in the PDF stream.