chart-parser
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pdf data extraction
SHOW HN2017
115points
31comments
#377of 2,242 in 2017
Top 17%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
6 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good level of control over PDF content via PDFBox
From 1 comment
Very cool, good to see the level of control this package allows.
tcho on HN
Impressive project and README
From 2 comments
Firstly, what an interesting library. Secondly, this is among the best TLDR readmes I've ever seen! I lack exposure to this area, so I'm actually quite impressed with the…
Cyph0n on HNGreat job! I was just looking at collecting race information and historical results data a month or two ago and was struck by the lack of available structured data. Heck, I…
0x445442 on HN
Objections
PDF is a poor format for structured data
From 2 comments
I still don't understand how PDF could become one of the standards for publishing documents. Well structured content gets converted into PDF which loses most of that structure.…
maxxxxx on HNVery neat, and gets me curious about PDFBox, but every time I see something that converts a consistent-layout PDF back to structured data, I just bemoan the fact that this would…
beager on HN
Questions
Can it be used for invoices?
From 1 comment
Can it be used for invoices?
ocrimgproc on HN
Alternatives named
pdfminer.six
From 1 comment
I came across https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six recently and was impressed with what it could get done. The documentation can be challenging to parse, so I relied on a…
tunaoftheland on HN
R pdftools
From 1 comment
As a python programmer, I found R's pdftools to be indispensable for messy text based PDFs. I couldn't find a python lib that worked as consistently across variously different…
richiverse on HN
pdftk
From 1 comment
Huh, interesting. I was looking around for PDF libs previously and PDFBox didn't show up in google results. pdftk was the only one that showed up in Google results anywhere…
bpicolo on HN