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Convet PDF to TEXT #223

Open miltonlab opened 8 years ago

miltonlab commented 8 years ago

Some command to extrat tabular data from PDF to spreadshet or CSV or txt? pdftotext is not exact

ShawnMilo commented 8 years ago

This is not an easy problem. textract is a good project, but when it comes to PDFs, which can literally be images, OCR is sometimes required. Also, formatting is a major issue and no automated system will be perfect.