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PDF tools - parse data

luhaatyrau
5 - Atom

Hi,

 

I have attached a file with two tabs.  The 1st tab is the data which needs to be parsed.  The 2nd tab is the format which I expect to see.

I don't know how to parse the data which was truncated into 2 lines.

 

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Mary

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cgoodman3
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

This will be challenging to do in a dynamic way, such as the next time you read in a similar document. There’s lots of additional white space which needs to be cleaned up.

Depending on the format of the data in the PDF, such as is it already in a table, I’d suggest using the table detection option in the image template tool. This would give you an output field with the columns delimited by a ‘|’ (pipe delimiter), which would make parsing easier and a more consistent approach.


https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science/Unlocking-Insights-from-Images-using-Computer-Vision/b...

 

Chris
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