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Topic: RE: pdf scraping (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 137121
From: LeonardR
Date: 8/2/2005 03:46 AM

At 11:27 PM 8/1/2005, p-pdf-accessibility Listmanager wrote:
>Well I am working mostly with data tables (i.e. stock prices from
>such time to such time) and data lists, which I need to put into
>Excel spreadsheets and save them to a database where they can be
>reacessed and updated from time to time.

OK...


>if worst comes to worst I can write a program that downloads and
>converts pdfs to texts while scraping regular html files but this
>would be running 3-6 programs simultaneously (I would have to also
>convert the texts to xls' and also acess and save to the database),

Possibly, though there are also PDF->XLS converters as well
which would save some time.


> so obviously it would be much easier if I could find a scraper
> which works on pdfs as well as htmls.
Well, given that most Web Search Engines support PDF
automatically - it wouldn't surprise me if other related tools did as
well. Try a Google search.


Leonard


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