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Tab separated data is confused to tables when parsing pdf to text

I am using pdfMiner to convert pdf to txt. When there are tabs, the data is read column wise instead of row wise. For example, the below snippet in a PDF: titel1 : text1 title2: text2 titl...
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A_Matar

pdf

layout

pdfminer

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I faced the same issu. Try it with pdfplumer (https://pypi.org/project/pdfplumber/) this is built up on pdfMiner. This Code worked perfectly fine for me: def pdf2txt(path): with pdfplumber.open(pa...
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Nico Petermann

Extracting email address, first name and last name from multiple PDF files within a folder

I am trying to extract the following information from all PDF files within a folder, the PDF files are CV's: Email Address, First Name, Last Name for a work project. I have successfully managed to ext...
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Berci Vagyok

python

pdf

text-extraction

pdfminer

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You can find email information because there is logic behind it match = re.search(r'[\w\.-]+@[a-z0-9\.-]+', text) But also you have to figure out a logic to find out first and last names of your PDF ...
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pedro_bb7

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