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by: zeneca - Thu, 6 Jan 2022 14:55 UTC

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by: Joe Beanfish - Fri, 7 Jan 2022 17:37 UTC

On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:55:52 +0100, zeneca wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to extract date (account number, name, date ....) from a
> pdf file. Any idee how to do this??
> Many thanks in advances
> André

Since "account number" isn't a standard pdf meta data, I assume you
want to extract meaningful data from the content of page(s) stored in
the PDF? If you're lucky, it's not just a picture of a page and has
actual text behind it. Try "pdftotext" or "pdftohtml" (part of "poppler")
to extract whatever text there is. Then your favorite text processing
language/utility for extracting the desired portions of the text.

If you happen to want meta data from the pdf, try "pdfinfo", also a
part of the "poppler" package.

Programmers do it bit by bit.

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extracting data from pdf	zeneca
Re: extracting data from pdf	Joe Beanfish