Scraping pdfs does anybody have a good tutorial on this?

Neon_Lights · 2014-09-03 18:22:35

Currently my job involves extropolating information from pdfs... this form of manual labour drives me nuts and i know theres a better way... i would greatly appreciate if anyone has a tutorial on this

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Currently my job involves extropolating information from pdfs... this form of manual labour drives me nuts and i know theres a better way... i would greatly appreciate if anyone has a tutorial on this

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If you or your company pay for a paid account with Adobe you can convert the PDF to excel or word if that helps?

I think it works out at about 20 euro a year.

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