Re: Regular Expression to Parse Data from a PDF

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Another possibility to try: if you're on a linux-y system and have the poppler package available which has a pdftotext (RHEL has it in its 'poppler-utils' RPM) that might work for you. Open a pipe from something like pdftotext -layout foo.pdf - and see if that gets what you need from your PDF for your purposes.

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Re^2: Regular Expression to Parse Data from a PDF by LanX (Sage) on Feb 27, 2020 at 21:04 UTC
> Open a pipe from something like 'pdftotext -layout' Not really, `pdftohtml -xml` is far better, see Parsing PDFs by text position? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]

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