[School-of-data] PDF Extraction Tools

[Michael Bauer]

Tom,

This looks great - looking through it right now (will definitely reference
it...)

Michael

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:27:20AM +0000, Tom Longley wrote:
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> Hi Michael --
> 
> I wrote this earlier in the year:
> 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
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> 
> - -- 
> Tom Longley
> Program Advisor
> Tactical Technology Collective
> e: tom at tacticaltech.org
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