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my pain point over the last few years has been pulling data out of pdf documents (ie govt departments think this counts as open data). I'd pay through the nos
by jgamman 14y ago
my pain point over the last few years has been pulling data out of pdf documents (ie govt departments think this counts as open data).
I'd pay through the nose for a tool that i could just dump pdf files into and have them find tables and convert them to csv. even if it was only 95+% that would save hours of tedious data entry...
- _delirium 14y agoYou might already know this, and it's not as automated as just dropping in a file, but one option for extracting tables from PDFs (other than retyping them) is the pro version of Adobe Acrobat. If you drag-select around a table, you can right-click to export it as Excel or CSV, which works most of the time.