Automation of information extraction from labolatory reports

[mlauber71]

@kuddybest you could try these examples how to extract text from pdf files:

Text mining from PDF documents and results places

@janszky_nav I adapted an older example (How to read multiple lines from PDF File - #6 by mlauber71) using R code to extract the text from PDF files and then search for the page and line where a special word (in this case “Procter”) would appear. [image] [image]

Unstructured text mining from PDF

@janszky_nav I would suggest you toy around with the workflow read the comments and the links. I was not able to extract the PDF from the word file but used the file you posted earlier (Text mining from PDF documents and results places - #6 by janszky_nav). I placed your PDF file in the /data/ folder of the node and searched for it in order to create the paths. If you have more than one PDF they would all be processed. The paths are also fed to R so no need to enter them manually. You also do n…