PDF to CSV?

DAVID HODGKINSON davehodg at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 14:11:39 GMT 2013


On 12 Dec 2013, at 13:39, David Dorward <david at dorward.me.uk> wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2013, at 12:41, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
> 
>> Not sure what you're trying to tell me here. It can read PDF? What?
> 
> PDF files do have plain text in them, it just just wrapped in markup, control characters and binary blobs (for things like embedded images and fonts).
> 
> It's possible that the data you want can be extracted from them by finding the appropriate bit of text in the file and using the code around it as a match in Template::Extract.

My life is diminishing too rapidly for that.


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