Tried Tabula, but again it's for PDF which has all the meta-data within it. I need it for paper scanned PDF/JPG and it fails by saying so
*"Sorry, your PDF file is image-based; it does not have any embedded text. It might have been scanned from paper... Tabula isn't able to extract any data from image-based PDFs. Click the Help button for more information."* - Mohit On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Srinivasan Ramani <[email protected]> wrote: > Tabula - http://tabula.technology/ works great with table extraction from > PDFs. > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:51 PM, mohit ranjan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for response Johnson. >> >> Is this the pdf-table-extract >> <https://github.com/ashima/pdf-table-extract> you are referring to ? >> It says, it reads table meta from PDF. >> >> My query was for scanned PDF/JPG images >> >> - Mohit >> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Johnson Chetty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have had some reasonable success with 'pdfquery' if you like Python. >>> It works with regional text as well. >>> Also, for tabular data, do try pdf-table-extract if quick and dirty >>> works for you. >>> >>> Java folks should try pdfbox. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 20 January 2017 at 15:23, mohit ranjan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Sorry if this is off-topic, but have seen threads here about liberating >>>> data from PDFs. >>>> Most likely there will be lot of scanned PDFs among them. >>>> >>>> Do we have any in-house expert on this and which library/tool >>>> (preferably not paid) to extract tables in scanned PDF/JPG ? >>>> >>>> CVision >>>> <http://www.cvisiontech.com/library/ocr/file-ocr/ocr-table-recognition.html> >>>> does a decent job, but it's paid. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> - Mohit >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "datameet" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "datameet" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Srinivasan V. Ramani , > Associate Editor, > The Hindu, > Chennai. > Ph: 07299033554 > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
