[School-of-data] PDF Extraction Tools

Thu Dec 20 12:12:04 UTC 2012

Hi!

I'm currently working on a PDF extraction project for the NIME conference
series. I use a combination of Python, Tika and Bibtex. Tika (
http://tika.apache.org/) is a great tool, and by using the terminal and
call tika with a --text argument returns text from the pdf file. The
work-in-progress code is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/olovholm/NIME. Main part of the code is in the
pdfextractor.py script.

- Ola Løvholm

2012/12/20 Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>

> 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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Ola Løvholm
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