Import Data from Microsoft Access

The system I'm building is attempting to read Microsoft Access DBs from a different system. I essentially need to be able to read the data, parse it, and do something with it. If I could somehow load it into an associative array, a database, or anything else,开发者_开发技巧 that'd be great.

Our users will have to import these files themselves, so we can't ask for preconversion into something else.

I've tried looking on SO and Google but haven't found anything close to what I'm talking about.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

I think ODBC extension can do the job.