Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Extract Table from PDF

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract Table from PDF
# 1  
Old 12-20-2008
Extract Table from PDF
Hi Guys!

I want to extract table from PDF in HTML. Can we do this using Shell script....??. Please provide me your suggestions. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
# 2  
Old 12-20-2008
The short answer is - probably not. The long answer is that it depends on how your PDF document was constructed. If the table you want was embedded as a standard table structure, then yes it is possible but difficult.
# 3  
Old 12-20-2008
Hi.

You may wish to see if your system has these (and others like them), or Google for them:
Code:
pdftotext (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)

pdftk - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents

-- from a search of the Debian repository

I have used pdftk for a few things, so I know that it works for some tasks.

If that doesn't work, then if you can get the text, you may be able to use other tools to convert to HTML. You didn't give us much to go on, so you will need to decide how much the result is worth your investment of time.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Extract hive table structure

Hi, I need to extract only the create table structure with columns alone. for eg hive_table show create table hive_table: create table hive_table(id number,age number) OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat' LOCATION 'hdfs:/path/' I need only below ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rohit_shinez
5 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Perl to extract from a pdf

The below perl script produces the metrics.txt below using the run.txt as the input. perl -ne 'BEGIN{print join("\t","R_Index", "ISP Loading", "Pre-Enrichment", "Total Reads", "Read Length", "Key Signal", "Usable Sequence", "Enrichment", "Polyclonal" ,"Low Quality" ,"Test Fragment", "Aligned... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Extract table from file

I need to sort out table in a file to a format below: Input: this is a test example Cat Bee Dat 1 2 3 more Example date data Bet Cla Blaa Dat A 6 T data.. Output: this is a test (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: aydj
10 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

PDF Script to extract PDF Links MOD in Need

In here we have a script to extract all pdf links from a single page.. any idea's in how make this read instead of a page a list of pages.. and extract all pdf links ? #!/bin/bash # NAME: pdflinkextractor # AUTHOR: Glutanimate (http://askubuntu.com/users/81372/), 2013 #... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: danielldf
1 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Extract table from an HTML file

I want to extract a table from an HTML file. the table starts with <table class="tableinfo" and ends with next closing table tag </table> how can I do this with awk/sed... ---------- Post updated at 04:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:28 PM ---------- also I want to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: koutroul
4 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Extract Mysql table output to a log file

I need to compare the 2 mysql database tables. there are around 50 tables in each DB. my idea is in DB1 extract result select * from table1; to alog file1 in DB2 extract result select * from table1; to alog file2 now compare log file 1 file 2 pls help me out ... thanks in advance (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalyankalyan
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Extract table name from DDL

How can I extract table name from the different DDL statement like ALTER TABLE CREATE TABLE etc Basically I have to parse thr the any of the DDL statement and verify if that DDL statement is implemented by DBA or not. how can i do this efficiently in Kornshell scripting. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gayathree
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell script to extract rows from table

I have an Employee with EID, ENAME and ESTATUS as columns in SQL. I want to extract the status of an employee and update the details if the status is 'A'. Can anyone help in writing the shell script. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vkca
1 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Unix command to extract a record from a table

Suppose there is a table like the following...I just wanted to know if there is any command using which we can get the record/name of the person who joined before 2005.. Sl Name des y.o.joining 1 Ram Engineer 2001 2 Hari Doctor 2004 3 David Plumber 2005 4 Rahim painter 2007 5 gurmeet... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: satyajit007
1 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

extract table name from a control file

Hi, I need to extract the table name from an oracle control file which comes as the last word in the third line. Ex: LOAD DATA INFILE '/home/user/files/scott.dat' INTO TABLE SCOTT.EMP_SAL FIELDS TERMINATED BY.......... what i want to to is write the table name SCOTT.EMP_SAL to a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mwrg
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question