Getting text and tables out of a PDF: what works, what needs OCR
A digital PDF gives up its text exactly; a scan gives up nothing. Learn to tell them apart in five seconds, extract tables to Excel, run th…
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A digital PDF gives up its text exactly; a scan gives up nothing. Learn to tell them apart in five seconds, extract tables to Excel, run th…
Tesseract reads a clean 300 DPI printed invoice almost perfectly, handles Devanagari headings reasonably, loses tables, and cannot read han…