A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs
Cool! That&#x27;s a good intro too.<p>Many people don&#x27;t realise the general weird disconnect in PDFs between real content and what you see on the screen that makes it hard to recover source data. In extreme cases you have subset fonts with glyphs ordered completely differently from how they are in the original and no mapping back to the character they represent. Then the graphics stream is instructions to draw glyphs at coordinates. As you can imagine it&#x27;s quite a battle to get back to something &quot;raw&quot; (assuming you even had fonts to start with).