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Posted March 2, 2015 4:35pm by

Tools scraping and parsing pdf

Can anyone suggest what are the best tools, libraries for automating the logging in to a website and scraping and parsing a pdf download? (any guides or tips useful too)

Thanks.

March 2, 2015 6:29pm

Sorry Y B, I don't have a good answer for you. The best I can offer is to do your own research with the help of Google.

Best Regards

1 Answer

March 23, 2015 6:23am

I've used dryscape for other scraping, and found it to be pretty useful (it uses Webkit, so it will allow JavaScript and other stuff to load).

You could probably use that in combo with something like pdfquery.

There are some articles about specifically getting text out of a PDF, if that's also what you're looking to do:

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