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Basic PDF Scraping Tool - Noor39 - Nov-03-2020
Hi All,
I am a beginner and I really want to code a basic PDF scraper and export to Excel.
Any advice on where to start and which packages I need to install to begin my journey will greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Noor
RE: Basic PDF Scraping Tool - Larz60+ - Nov-03-2020
You can start looking here: https://pypi.org/search/?q=PDF
popular are pdfminer6 and camelot (plus many others)
I also left you a link on the welcome page for PDF Reference, Sixth Edition, version 1.7
repeated here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html
RE: Basic PDF Scraping Tool - Noor39 - Nov-04-2020
(Nov-03-2020, 09:56 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: You can start looking here: https://pypi.org/search/?q=PDF
popular are pdfminer6 and camelot (plus many others)
I also left you a link on the welcome page for PDF Reference, Sixth Edition, version 1.7
repeated here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html
Good morning Larz,
Thank you for coming back to me and providing links to get me started.
Have a lovely day.
:)
Noor
RE: Basic PDF Scraping Tool - Aspire2Inspire - Nov-04-2020
Also, PDFPlumber and Py2PDF are two common and decent library's!
Goodluck