title: Is it possible to do "document based artifact creation" from a PDF file in Enterprise Architect?
body: <p>Enterprise Architect offers a handy feature to generate UML artifacts (or glossary entries) from external sources that can be imported into the project as RTF files.</p>
  
  <p>These RTF can be attached to an existing project as a "linked document" or "UML document artifact" (using the &lt;&lt; document >> stereotype for an "artifact" model entity).
  This is described here on page 36:
  <a href="http://www.sparxsystems.com/downloads/whitepapers/Requirements_Management_in_Enterprise_Architect.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparxsystems.com/downloads/whitepapers/Requirements_Management_in_Enterprise_Architect.pdf</a></p>
  
  <p>Is the same possible with a file that is formatted as PDF? For example using an add-in?</p>
  
  <p>I tried to drag-and-drop it or import PDFs the same way as an RTF but this failed.</p>
  
  <p>Rationale: Most customer input comes in PDF format.</p>
  
  <p>.doc or .docx may also be of some help.</p>
  
  <p>I know it could all be copy-pasted into an RTF but that is quite error-prone.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>