Re:Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using d...
by jonathanstray on Saturday June 22, 2019 @01:33PM
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I didn’t try separating out tables because the total field isn’t actually “inside” the table in many cases. Certainly the other fields I want are not.
pdfplumber seems mostly ok at extracting tokens. Sometimes it seems to combine tokens that should be separate. I suspect a few percent of the error is actually problems earlier in the data pipeline, as opposed to the model proper.
pdfplumber seems mostly ok at extracting tokens. Sometimes it seems to combine tokens that should be separate. I suspect a few percent of the error is actually problems earlier in the data pipeline, as opposed to the model proper.