ProPublica recently published an article (with an unseemly title) about the nightmare of scraping data from pdfs and putting it into tables. [1] They wrote some

ProPublica recently published an article (with an unseemly title) about the nightmare of scraping data from pdfs and putting it into tables. [1] They wrote some custom software to do the scraping. At the end of the article they mention some software released recently by a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow, Manuel Aristarán, called Tabula, which is a PDF data table scaper.[2] I haven't tested it yet. [1] http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/heart-of-nerd-darkness-why-dollars-for-docs-was-so-difficult http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/heart-of-nerd-darkness-... [2] http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/ http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing...