[School-of-data] PDF Extraction Tools (Michael Bauer)

Thu Dec 20 19:56:00 UTC 2012

I asked the same question recently to folks at the Guardian Data Blog. This
was the reply:

@adstiles <http://twitter.com/adstiles> Weirdly Adobe pro is very good at
exporting tables and this too: http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/

I added the converter here: http://schoolofdata.org/online-resources/

Adam

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> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:54:38 +0100
> From: Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
> Subject: [School-of-data] PDF Extraction Tools
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> Hi,
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> For the next School of Data tutorial I would like to cover Data extraction
> from PDFs (and text) as well as OCR.
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> Does anyone here have experience with Tools that do not require coding
> skills to extract data and text from PDFs?
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> Which tools do you use?
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> Michael
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> From: Tom Longley <tom at tacticaltech.org>
> Subject: Re: [School-of-data] PDF Extraction Tools
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> Hi Michael --
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> I wrote this earlier in the year:
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> http://drawingbynumbers.org/data-design-basics/note-3-opening-open-data#anchor-5
> There's some stuff about different tools and no much complimentary to
> say about  OCR.
>
> Tom
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> On 20/12/12 10:54, Michael Bauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the next School of Data tutorial I would like to cover Data
> > extraction from PDFs (and text) as well as OCR.
> >
> > Does anyone here have experience with Tools that do not require
> > coding skills to extract data and text from PDFs?
> >
> > Which tools do you use?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
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