This is about the amount of data that you won’t find normally – graphs and charts.
One of the reasons we originally got into PDFs was that the quality of the content – especially numeric content - was so high. We were finding far less junk than on HTML pages. I appreciate that this is necessarily a generalisation - no insult is intended to the producers of top-quality content in HTML.
Topics: Data Extraction
If you’ve ever tried to copy a table from a PDF document, you’ll know it’s a pain. You can only do so one cell at a time – which is very laborious. However there are a lot of companies on the web that claim to be able to do ‘PDF to Excel’ processing – either cheaply or for free.
We’ve reviewed these services to establish the quality of their technologies.
Topics: Data Extraction