Hacker News
new
|
past
|
comments
|
ask
|
show
|
jobs
|
submit
login
Pdftabextract – A set of tools for data mining OCR-processed PDFs
(
github.com/wzbsocialsciencecenter
)
143 points
by
happy-go-lucky
on Feb 26, 2017
|
hide
|
past
|
favorite
|
4 comments
derwiki
on Feb 27, 2017
|
next
[–]
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
markovbling
on Feb 27, 2017
|
prev
|
next
[–]
awesome! any guidance on why I might use this rather than Tabula?
nycdatasci
on Feb 27, 2017
|
parent
|
next
[–]
Tabula works on text-based PDF documents, not on scanned content so I assume it's not using OCR?
mrdrozdov
on Feb 27, 2017
|
prev
[–]
Anyone using this yet to automatically track SotA results on machine learning tasks?
Guidelines
|
FAQ
|
Lists
|
API
|
Security
|
Legal
|
Apply to YC
|
Contact
Search:
