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It's not the text that's the issue, it's the structure. PDFs have nowhere near as much structure as markup. You end up having to do this for dozens of layouts a
by lumpypua 12y ago
It's not the text that's the issue, it's the structure. PDFs have nowhere near as much structure as markup. You end up having to do this for dozens of layouts and it gets hurty really fast:
http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/18/get-started-with-scraping-extracting-simple-tables-from-pdf-documents/ http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/18/get-started-with-scraping...
- dennybritz 12y agoThere are computer vision libraries that automatically extract tables from PDFs. For example, http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/projects/pdf2table/ http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/projects/pdf2table/. You may want to give that a try if you haven't looked at it before.