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  insert PDF table in database sarika <sarikasoni12@gmail.com> - 2013-05-21 00:04 -0700
    Re: insert PDF table in database Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2013-05-21 10:48 +0200
    Re: insert PDF table in database Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-21 06:07 -0400
    Re: insert PDF table in database Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-05-21 12:08 +0200
      Re: insert PDF table in database The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-21 12:46 +0100
    Re: insert PDF table in database Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-05-21 09:27 -0700
      Re: insert PDF table in database "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-05-21 21:48 +0200

#9488 — insert PDF table in database

Hi All

What i want is to read content in PDF table and convert it into either XML or associative array to be inserted in database on the fly.

I have gone through many libraries on net providing text extraction from PDF and converting in array but that array does not seem to be useful as its not associative array and array indexing is also not proper.

Thanks in advance for the replies but i am really stuck with this major issue. 
My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.

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#9489

On 21.5.2013 9:04, sarika wrote:
> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.
> 

Tell him "you do it" :)

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#9495

On 5/21/2013 3:04 AM, sarika wrote:
> Hi All
>
> What i want is to read content in PDF table and convert it into either XML or associative array to be inserted in database on the fly.
>
> I have gone through many libraries on net providing text extraction from PDF and converting in array but that array does not seem to be useful as its not associative array and array indexing is also not proper.
>
> Thanks in advance for the replies but i am really stuck with this major issue.
> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.
>

It's impossible to help you when you don't show any code and don't tell 
us *exactly* what's wrong with your code.  "It's not an associative 
array" and "array indexing is not proper" don't provide enough information.

If you want help, we need things like:

1). A sample input document
2). The code you're using
3). The expected output
4). The output you got

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#9496

sarika, 2013-05-21 09:04:

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> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.

And what is your manager willing to pay for a solution? ;-)


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Arno Welzel
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#9498

On 21/05/13 11:08, Arno Welzel wrote:
> sarika, 2013-05-21 09:04:
>
> [...]
>> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.
> And what is your manager willing to pay for a solution? ;-)
>
>
The problem is that two apparently identical PDFs can be totally 
different internally.

Yea even down to being simply bitmaps with no text, that at intended 
resolution appear identical.

at best you can strip out most of the text and with a bit of 
intelligence, sometimes even get it in the right order.


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#9503

In article <b6c1cfb3-1f8b-48c5-8822-25d10402d896@googlegroups.com>,
 sarika <sarikasoni12@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> What i want is to read content in PDF table and convert it into either XML or 
> associative array to be inserted in database on the fly.
> 
> I have gone through many libraries on net providing text extraction from PDF 
> and converting in array but that array does not seem to be useful as its not 
> associative array and array indexing is also not proper.
> 
> Thanks in advance for the replies but i am really stuck with this major 
> issue. 
> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.

I ran across this problem with various bank statements that I downloaded 
via my bank's personal web site.  The PDFs were encrypted and set with 
certain properties that didn't allow scanning of the text layer.  Unless 
you are able to decrypt and do OCR on the PDFs, you're wasting your time 
here.  The problem isn't as simple as your manager would think.  At 
best, you could offer a partial solution of being able to scan "some" 
PDF files but without libraries to decrypt and OCR the text, that's all 
you can do.

Those libraries are probably on-line somewhere for a fee.  Buy the 
solution if you're in a time crunch.  Beating the fastest horse on your 
team is poor project management skills and won't get him the code any 
faster.

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[I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically ignored]

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#9508

On 21/05/13 18:27, Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <b6c1cfb3-1f8b-48c5-8822-25d10402d896@googlegroups.com>,
>   sarika <sarikasoni12@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> What i want is to read content in PDF table and convert it into either XML or
>> associative array to be inserted in database on the fly.
>>
>> I have gone through many libraries on net providing text extraction from PDF
>> and converting in array but that array does not seem to be useful as its not
>> associative array and array indexing is also not proper.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the replies but i am really stuck with this major
>> issue.
>> My project manager wants me to implement as soon as possible.
>
> I ran across this problem with various bank statements that I downloaded
> via my bank's personal web site.  The PDFs were encrypted and set with
> certain properties that didn't allow scanning of the text layer.  Unless
> you are able to decrypt and do OCR on the PDFs, you're wasting your time
> here.  The problem isn't as simple as your manager would think.  At
> best, you could offer a partial solution of being able to scan "some"
> PDF files but without libraries to decrypt and OCR the text, that's all
> you can do.
>
> Those libraries are probably on-line somewhere for a fee.  Buy the
> solution if you're in a time crunch.  Beating the fastest horse on your
> team is poor project management skills and won't get him the code any
> faster.
>

Most likely the company said they can do this to their western customer, 
then a manager gets the task to see to that his team solves the problem, 
the work is then pushed to a "shadow resource" who looks for solutions 
online. If not managing to solve the issue, there is always hundreds of 
others to replace that person with. At least that is my experience how 
things work in India.

-- 

  //Aho

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