Portable Document Format, a file type with a fixed layout. Databricks can load these files with the binaryFile source and extract their contents using ai_parse_document.
Also called Portable Document Format.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains PDF in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- PDF
Portable Document Format. Its layout never shifts, and paginated reports can be printed or saved in it with all their rows showing.
- FILE type
In Beta, this type stores no file contents, only a governed pointer to an unstructured file plus metadata. Columns using it are declared as either
FILE EXTERNALorFILE MANAGED. - Databricks
Analytics platform built on Apache Spark where data is processed in notebooks; Unity Catalog is the governance model it recommends.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- binaryFile
A Spark data source that reads every file as a single record containing its metadata and raw bytes. Images, audio and PDFs are typical uses.