Andrea ~ I've not used it myself, but I have heard from others that do text analysis that Tesseract can well handle tabular data in scans: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
~ Amy -- Amy J. Kirchhoff (she/her) Constellate Text Analytics Business Manager / Portico, JSTOR Twitter: @AmyPlusFour Find out about user interface releases, text analytics classes, and other updates in our email group (https://ithaka.groups.io/g/tdm-jstor-portico). -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 2:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: [CODE4LIB] Converting old tables in PDF to CSV >>>>>Caution: This message did not originate from within ITHAKA's email >>>>>system. Please use caution when opening attachments and following >>>>>links within this message.<<<<< Hello List, Has anyone had success converting tables in a PDF to CSV? These are scans of paper from the 70s on forward. I know this isn’t a super easy conversion, but I would think it’s not impossible either. Thanks, Andrea -- Andrea Medina-Smith Data Librarian Information Services Office National Institute of Standards and Technology andrea.medina-sm...@nist.gov<mailto:andrea.medina-sm...@nist.gov> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217-701X
