Example 1: Extract a Table from PDF File Using Python

Author(s): Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Demonstration of parsing PDF files using Python & R API

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Data is key for any analysis in data science, be it inferential analysis, predictive analysis, or prescriptive analysis. The predictive power of a model depends on the quality of the data that was used in building the model. Data comes in different forms such as text, table, image, voice or video. Most often, data that is used for analysis has to be mined, processed and transformed to render it to a form suitable for further analysis.

The most common type of dataset used in most of the analysis is clean data that is stored in a comma-separated value (csv) table…. Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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