Pdftabextract – A set of tools for data mining OCR-processed PDFs(github.com)
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Pdftabextract – A set of tools for data mining OCR-processed PDFs
https://github.com/WZBSocialScienceCenter/pdftabextract
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I did a doubletake; I thought I had just seen this on HN; turns PDFLayoutTextStripper was on the front page a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729301
awesome! any guidance on why I might use this rather than Tabula?
Tabula works on text-based PDF documents, not on scanned content so I assume it's not using OCR?
Anyone using this yet to automatically track SotA results on machine learning tasks?