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For my use case, I ended up converting the PDF to a single png image and then use Amazon Textract on it. This allows me to easily convert pdf tables into csv f

by ademup 4y ago

For my use case, I ended up converting the PDF to a single png image and then use Amazon Textract on it. This allows me to easily convert pdf tables into csv files all from within php. Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS, but this works.

lhuser123 4y ago
> Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS How about tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) There’s even a library for php (https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php). Haven’t used it. I did used python Pytesseract & works fairly well.
- ademup 4y ago
  Haven't seen this one, thanks!