I am trying to follow this blog in trying to extract text from an invoice pdf file. My text extraction requires extraction specific fields of the invoice. https://kaijento.github.io/2017/03/...axcommissioner.publicaccessnow.com/#pdftotext I have tried pdfminer, textract but they all extract the text as jumbled and its difficult to extract text after that. I came across Poppler package download below: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html Looks like its a .tar file. And not a python package. Am not sure how to use this .tar file to extract the package and use it in Python. Any suggestions how I install this on my mac and then use it programatically in python to run a bunch of pdf files through this to extract data. Continue reading...
