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Igor2:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> > Igor2:
> > [ about tables in pdf's ]
> >
> > It's true that pdf doesn't have a table structure.
> >
> > I have some experimetal code to extract tables from pdf's, the is in:
> >
> >  http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/openhw/pdftosym/Experimental/
>
> Thanx, will check it out. What you wrote suggests your script works 
> similar to mine.

Yes, but I got the impression you used the graphical elements in the 
file and that you possible used pdftohtml in "html" mode, which doesn't
give you the text positions. I have been working purely on the textual 
part.

And beware that the code above is a big mess. Perhaps you can have a
look at:

 http://turkos.aspodata.se/computing/pdfextr.pl

which is a little less unpolished, it extracts things from an invoice
(sorry can't provide you with the input data example).

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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