Scraping tools

The following is a collection of tools that are known to scrape text selectable PDFs.

Listing of tools

• Sunlight Foundations Tools

• List here

• Other here

• cometdocs.com - ToS requires that you own what you upload, FWIW
• pdftoexcelonline.com- ToS just requires that you respect IP rights
• zamzar.com - ToS says to respect copyright
• tabula.nerdpower.org - scrapes tabular data to CSV or excel
• scraperwiki.com - not free, scrapes tabular data to excel
• [http://virantha.com/2013/07/22/pyocr-a-python-script-for-running-free-ocr-on-your-pdfs/] - PyPDFOCR (python script that uses google's tesseract ocr api). In it's conversion process, it produces HOCR files which should be machine readable.
• I will look for more here: PDF Scrapers on GitHub (nwhysel)