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Re: Re: Structured from/within unstructured documents

• From: "Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@g...>
• To: "Marcus Carr" <mcarr@a...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:02:30 +0000

Sounds good. Thanks Marcus.

On 17/12/2007, Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...> wrote:
>
> Stephen Green wrote:
>
> > What methods are there, these days, for extracting structured data from
> > unstructured documents (such as PDF)?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I didn't see anyone suggest saving the
> PDF as XML straight from Acrobat. If you have a full licence, it does a
> pretty respectable job, getting you paragraph and character tagging,
> tables and images. You can also batch process, converting entire
> directories or what have you. The results are at least as good as saving
> the PDF to something like Word first and you could be forgiven for
> expecting that they might even be better.
>
> Once you're that far, you can get on your XSLT boots...
>
>
> Marcus
>
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  • Re: Structured from/within unstructured documents
    • From: Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...>