Pulling tables from PDF

[Taki]

Hi:

I have a PDF which contains regular text and  about 10 to 11 tables in between the text and I need to compare the values from these tables to the prior PDF to ensure consistency. Is there a way to extract the tables from the PDF in Alteryx into Excel?

Thanks,

Taki

[BrandonB]

Hi @Taki 

Have you seen the latest release of the Alteryx Intelligence Suite? It allows for text extraction of individual elements from PDFs: https://www.alteryx.com/products/alteryx-platform/intelligence-suite 

[CharlieS · Accepted solution]

Hi @Taki 

Alteryx has just released a new Intelligence Suite which includes the capability to extract data from images/pdf (and other cool features). Check out the website below, and take note that it comes at an addition cost:

alteryx.com/products/alteryx-platform/intelligence-suite 

Otherwise, this is possible with R/Python in Alteryx. Here's some links to check out:

https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/PDF-Input--Text-and-Image-/5be5ec8d0462d71ffce6deaa 

https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/PDF-Input/5b685aff0462d710907f7a3b