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0 pointsdempseye4y ago0 comments

Make an API out of that. There is huge demand for it.

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agustif4y ago

I needed to do this, so happy someone else made it!

A nice FOSS library for it was on HN recently, sharing is caring I guess

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28680136

https://extract-table.com/

https://github.com/vegarsti/extract-table

mediascreen4y ago

I'm pretty sure AWS Textract does that already.

https://aws.amazon.com/textract/

mvcatsifma4y ago

I believe such an API already exists: https://pdftables.com/ (no affiliation).

Went to a presentation at a Golang meetup in Amsterdam by the guys behind this company. Seemed to know their stuff. But I have no real world experience using it.

vic-traill4y ago

I had a look - from their FAQ [0]:

However, some PDFs are scanned documents, or only contain images. PDFTables doesn't perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn these images into text.

To process these kinds of documents, you will need to either enable OCR in your scanning software, or run the PDF through specialist OCR software before using PDFTables.

[0] https://pdftables.com/faq

leesalminen4y ago

I’m in need of that right now! Would pay for it, especially if the proceeds benefitted that non-profit!

mlboss4y ago

Looks this does it https://www.extracttable.com/

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