Re: Read table data from PDF

I am afraid that is a non-trivial task. To know why, please read the following node by almut: Re: CAM::PDF did't extract all pdf's content

I made good experiences by using an external pdf2txt-converter and the parsing the output - but this of course depends on your input-document.

HTH, Rata

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Re^2: Read table data from PDF by ateague (Monk) on May 11, 2016 at 13:59 UTC
I made good experiences by using an external pdf2txt-converter and the parsing the output - but this of course depends on your input-document. As a side note, if you go down this route, make absolutely certain that your external program will extract the text with some sort of X/Y position. Unless you have full and complete control over the PDF and its generation, parsing PDF text by fixed position row/column is pretty much guaranteed to end in failure, frustration, and an absolutely massive nest of exceptions and special parsing cases	[reply]

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Re^2: Read table data from PDF
by ateague (Monk) on May 11, 2016 at 13:59 UTC

I made good experiences by using an external pdf2txt-converter and the parsing the output - but this of course depends on your input-document.

As a side note, if you go down this route, make absolutely certain that your external program will extract the text with some sort of X/Y position.

Unless you have full and complete control over the PDF and its generation, parsing PDF text by fixed position row/column is pretty much guaranteed to end in failure, frustration, and an absolutely massive nest of exceptions and special parsing cases

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