Re^2: Extract data from website and transfer it to Outlook

As I was reading this I was just about to post similar to your comment concerning the expectation of the OP's employer that they perform this function

of course, before I quit I would have asked for a contractor to write the code to accomplish the task

ah..the joys of having a pointy headed manager

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Re^3: Extract data from website and transfer it to Outlook by Paintermonkey (Novice) on Apr 27, 2006 at 23:29 UTC
Thanks guys! You have all been really helpful and really nice! I like this site so much I've taken the good advice and registered myself. I've been reading up on WWW::Mechanize. Sadly, the website in question IS in Javascript. I haven't given up yet. I'm going to spend some more time looking up as much info as I can. I also have acquired a .pdf version of the web data. I'm doing the best I can , trying to tackle this with straight Perl or trying to convert and extract info from the .pdf . Hopefully, I will be successful. As to quitting...I will not be doing this forever. I will not be doing this forever. I will not be doing this forever. Many thanks, and of course further advice is welcomed! Telly	[reply]
Re^4: Extract data from website and transfer it to Outlook by hesco (Deacon) on Apr 28, 2006 at 04:45 UTC
If you have a pdf of the data you need try pdftotext, which is a part of the xpdf library. It does a great job of extracting useful text from any pdf not based on a scan of an image. Then you'll have plain text to parse into fields. That would save the WWW::Mechanize learning curve and the javascript frustrations it raises. -- Hugh	[reply]


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