Well, what can you do with your bare hands? Build tools so you can do stuff, starting with using stones and the like for tools?
On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 13:26 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:38 AM hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 13:03 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > My goal: I want to create something similar to the phone guide. > > > In > > > this > > > page exist a great number of documents in format pdf. So, I want > > > to > > > unite > > > the different documents and can filter for name, last name, > > > location. > > > If I > > > make this manually I have to open each document, download the > > > document and > > > search the name of the person manually. > > > > > > The documents uploaded in this page are different: year, date. > > > They > > > contain > > > different information. > > > > > > > Perhaps you can automate the downloading and then use tools that > > merge > > PDF files, like pdfunite, to turn them into a single PDF. There's > > also > > pdf2txt that can extract text from a PDF --- of course, that would > > only > > work if there were a way to detect which information is what. > > > > Since we do not have all the PDF files which apparently are all > > different, we can't tell how it might be possible to detect which > > information is what. > > > > I wouldn't even bother with this because PDF is awful to get > > information from automatically. Whoever makes these PDF files > > needs to > > provide the information in such a way that it is usable. Since you > > need to download all the files anyway to search for a name, you're > > better off merging them into a single file and search that in your > > favourite PDF viewer. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:04 PM Mike <te...@mflan.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm going to be traveling, so will not be able to help much > > > > in the next 2 days. > > > > > > > > That is a PDF file you supplied. Is it fair to say you want to > > > > be able to search for all the names listed in a text file and > > > > be > > > > able to print out which file contains which name. And in some > > > > cases the name will not be in any of the files? Is that the > > > > goal? > > > > > > > > Define your goal and we will help you. > > > > > > > > > > > > The file below is a bit old, but maybe it works for your > > > > PDF files. I have not tested it on your url. I gather > > > > you don't have HTML tables, so maybe it is not for your case. > > > > > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > > > # > > > > # > > > > # This program writes the results of the webpage listed in line > > > > 17 > > > > # to $outfile. So basically it converts HTML to text. > > > > # It works reasonably well with HTML tables. > > > > # > > > > # > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > use strict; > > > > use warnings; > > > > use LWP::UserAgent; > > > > use HTML::FormatText::WithLinks::AndTables; > > > > > > > > > > > > my $page = 'http://www.mflan.com/crime.htm'; > > > > > > > > my $outfile = 'output.txt'; > > > > > > > > chdir '/home/mike/Documents/copy'; > > > > > > > > open OUT, ">>$outfile" or die "Can't open '$outfile': $!"; > > > > > > > > my ($sl, $request, $response, $html); > > > > > > > > $sl = LWP::UserAgent->new; > > > > > > > > > > > > $sl->proxy('http', ''); # enter proxy if needs be / and set it > > > > for > > > > Soap > > > > too ... > > > > $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $page); > > > > $response = $sl->request($request); > > > > $html = $response->as_string; > > > > > > > > print "Got it into \$html.\n"; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > my $text = HTML::FormatText::WithLinks::AndTables- > > > > >convert($html); > > > > > > > > > > > > print OUT "$text"; > > > > > > > > print "\nAll done.\n"; > > > > > > > > close OUT; > > > > > > > > > > > > __END__ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/20/22 10:13, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > > > The url of the page: > > > > > > > > > > https://www.pgr.gob.ni/PDF/2021/GACETA/GACETA_17_08_2021.pdf > > > > > > > > > > On 7/20/22, William Torrez Corea <willitc9...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Exist a page where you put info about the person but if you > > > > > > want to > > > > search > > > > > > a name you must search this manually. So, I want to > > > > > > automate > > > > > > this > > > > process > > > > > > with perl. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > With kindest regards, William. > > > > > > > > > > > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > > > > > > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > > > > > > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org > > > > > > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > > > > > I want to create this by means of code, i don't want to use any tool. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
