> Pretty much nothing can convert arbitrary PDF files to unicode. It > depends a > lot on what is in the PDF to begin with -- properly encoded text or just > bitmapped images, for example. > I would recommend you search around to see whether there's a related > archive in a different format.
If that isn't available, one could use tabula[1] to extract tables from pdfs as csv. HTH [1] http://tabula.nerdpower.org
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