Very good results, for me, using https://tabula.technology/ <https://tabula.technology/> (Mac OS X).
Bye. sb
> On 23 Jun 2022, at 21:52, Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks everyone for the pointers.
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> On 6/22/22, 7:05 AM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Julien Tremblay McLellan" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Just a note if someone wants to do this at scale. Statistics Canada has an
> AI to convert from pdfs to csv.
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> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:59 AM Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> There was some work at the Wellcome Collection several years ago looking at
>> extracting tabular information from digitised materials - a brief review
>> suggests that Abbyy FineReader Engine 11 was used to identify tables,
>> although there were a number of challenges - how far those challenges were
>> overcome wasn't clear to me from a brief review, but if this is of interest
>> there's a post at
>>
>> https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstacks.wellcomecollection.org%2F1-million-tables-and-counting-7e7e6c9f76e&data=05%7C01%7Candrea.medina-smith%40NIST.GOV%7Cc29940e159de452ef18008da543f15f4%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C637914927194949931%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tdKda6acvapl9spTnGOVsYC3qxGV0aGFHWO3u9FniDo%3D&reserved=0
>> plus a report the Wellcome Collection commissioned at
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>> https://github.com/wellcometrust/wellcomecollection.org/files/2148381/Scoping.MOH.for.data.recovery.report.-.final.pdf
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>> Christy Henshaw at the Wellcome Collection may be able to share some of
>> their experience and learning if you reach out to them
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>> Best wishes
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 19:47, Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) <
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>>> 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
>>>
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