On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:15 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > our state legislature has all their reports online in PDF format, i > was hoping to scrape 'em and get them and use them with django to > create something similar to what adrian did with the w-p and others > have done.
There are a couple freely-available libraries that can scrape PDF; pyPdf [1], for example, is BSD licensed and seems to be actively maintained, and can read the text out of a PDF for you. From there you can pretty easily fiddle with the text; the Python Cookbook has a recipe [2] for reading the text from a PDF programmatically, for example. For getting data from PDF into a database, I (personally) generally convert to an intermediate format like CSV, which has the advantage of also working in a lot of spreadsheet tools for people to browse while you're getting the DB import going. [1] http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ [2] http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/511465 -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
