Scaper wiki pdf tables tool

mkalish commented 7 years ago

This tool is no longer available for free, but the code is open sourced. The old tool had the ability to export the data directly to CKAN and this would be an extremely helpful feature for adding data to the portal

Tasks:

Run LMGTDFY on an EC2 instance and share the DNS
Investigate using the above tool to directly import data into CKAN
Investigate running pdf scaper wiki/ document what would be involved in writing our own
Look into Tabula as a potential alternative for scraping data
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jalbertbowden commented 7 years ago

another open source option as well https://lmgtdfy.usopendata.org/

jalbertbowden commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-site-archive

jalbertbowden commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula

jalbertbowden commented 7 years ago

this tool scrapes ESRI REST services https://github.com/openaddresses/pyesridump

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