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Re:New Jersey Open Data Initiative by otoburb on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:30PM (#13371757)
While deplorable from an accessibility standpoint, at least the data is available and out in the open to the public. One small step in the right direction.

EDIT: Tabula[1] is an open source tool to extract tables from PDFs into CSV/Excel format in case one really needs to process data trapped in PDF documents.

[1] http://tabula.technology

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Re:New Jersey Open Data Initiative by rcthompson on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:47AM (#13372051)
Does Tabula do OCR? That's what would be required for tables embedded as images.
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Re:New Jersey Open Data Initiative by josephfrazier on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:20AM (#13372147)
Unfortunately, it doesn't. From https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula:

> Caveat: Tabula only works on text-based PDFs, not scanned documents. If you can click-and-drag to select text in your table in a PDF viewer (even if the output is disorganized trash), then your PDF is text-based and Tabula should work.

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Re:New Jersey Open Data Initiative by markovbling on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:31AM (#13372577)
Tabula is great!
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