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Re: insert PDF table in database

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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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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

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