Hello,
Are there any tools or tricks how to automatically extract tables from pdfs. Are there any C# libraries that could do that? Or do you maybe know other methods how this could be handled?
Thank you very much
A:
You can use the iTextSharp library to deal with PDFs : http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
I've only used it to generate PDFs programatically, but Im fairly certain you can use it to pull them apart.
There's a tutorial here : http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/index.html
ThePaddedCell
2010-04-23 14:47:53
Please don't recommend products unless you know whether or not they can actually do what you're recommending them for. It just adds noise.
Rowan
2010-04-25 19:46:31
Is it not better to suggest something, then suggesting nothing at all?
ThePaddedCell
2010-04-26 13:07:17
+1
A:
PDF files do not contain table structures - several tools will try and 'guess' them.
mark stephens
2010-04-23 20:51:28
+2
A:
i found a interesting site and one master thesis about this topic
Information Extraction - Utilizing Table Patterns
http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/projects/pdf2table/
if anybody finds more informations please keep on posting...
nWorx
2010-04-29 16:58:55