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While deplorable from an accessibility standpoint, at least the data is available and out in the open to the public. One small step in the right direction. EDI
by otoburb 10y ago
While deplorable from an accessibility standpoint, at least the data is available and out in the open to the public. One small step in the right direction.
EDIT: Tabula[1] is an open source tool to extract tables from PDFs into CSV/Excel format in case one really needs to process data trapped in PDF documents.
[1] http://tabula.technology http://tabula.technology
- rcthompson 10y agoDoes Tabula do OCR? That's what would be required for tables embedded as images.
- josephfrazier 10y agoUnfortunately, it doesn't. From https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula: > Caveat: Tabula only works on text-based PDFs, not scanned documents. If you can click-and-drag to select text in your table in a PDF viewer (even if the output is disorganized trash), then your PDF is text-based and Tabula should work.
- markovbling 10y agoTabula is great!