Do you have a link to one of them? I've never tried to parse a PDF document, but it looks like there are a number of tools available in a few languages I'm competent in.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Tomblin</b> <<a href="mailto:ptomblin@xcski.com">ptomblin@xcski.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Peter Burns (<a href="mailto:rictic@gmail.com">rictic@gmail.com</a>):<br>> Hey all,<br>><br>> I'm a coder with some time on his hands, a penchant for screen-scraping and<br>> data transforming, and a deep ideological agreement with putting data into a
<br>> convenient form for easy access.<br>><br>> Know databases that need to be imported into Freebase? I'd like to<br>> contribute.<br><br>Do you know anything about scraping data from PDF files? Many countries
<br>publish their aeronautical data only in PDF formats. I used to get this<br>data from the DAFIF (Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File), but<br>the US Government that published it withdrew it from public use.<br>
<br><br>--<br>Paul Tomblin <<a href="mailto:ptomblin@xcski.com">ptomblin@xcski.com</a>> <a href="http://blog.xcski.com/">http://blog.xcski.com/</a><br>"Guns don't shoot people. Vice Presidents shoot people."
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