Scaper wiki pdf tables tool

[mkalish]

https://pdftables.com/

This tool is no longer available for free, but the code is open sourced. The old tool had the ability to export the data directly to CKAN and this would be an extremely helpful feature for adding data to the portal

Tasks:

• Run LMGTDFY on an EC2 instance and share the DNS
• Investigate using the above tool to directly import data into CKAN
• Investigate running pdf scaper wiki/ document what would be involved in writing our own
• Look into Tabula as a potential alternative for scraping data
• ...

[jalbertbowden]

another open source option as well
https://lmgtdfy.usopendata.org/

[jalbertbowden]

https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python
https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-site-archive

[jalbertbowden]

https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula

[jalbertbowden]

this tool scrapes ESRI REST services https://github.com/openaddresses/pyesridump