On Nov 17, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: > the supplement you are referring to does not seem to be an appropriate > example. > > If I use pdftotext the result is the attached file pro200700038_s.txt from > which > I could extract the information of table S3 column wise (except for the > Protein > names which have no field separators and contain an uncertain number of words > per entry)
So basically if you, manually adjust the field separators after carefully inspecting the data after trying several different ways to convert it, etc., you can get the data out. I concede. It's better for numerous people who want to use the data to spend effort reverse-engineering the tables than the one guy writing the paper to engineer them properly in the first place. What was I thinking? James
