upload pdf with pdf parser

[smartie]

Hi,

i’m new here.
I would like to use PDF PARSER node (i already installed text processing extension), but i’m not able to upload file pdf. I even tried to drag the pdf file on the board, but no results.

Can anyone tell me why?

Thank you very much!

[izaychik63]

PDF Parser reads all PDF files in the specified folder. If file is a picture in old 1.4 version it may not be recognized. You also may try Tika Parser.

[ipazin]

Hi there @smartie,

welcome to KNIME Community!

Do you get any INFO, WARN or ERROR message? If you can share PDF file and someone will give it a try.

Br,
Ivan

[smartie]

Hi @izaychik63,

thank you very much for your reply.

[smartie]

Hi @ipazin,

thank you for welcome and help!
I’ve been using knime for a very short time but I can see its full potential, so I’m learning from scratch.

I’ve attached the pdf file that I need to encode. I have to transport it in an excel table, an operation that I do manually every day wasting a lot of time.

I’m not even sure if pdf parser is the most suitable knot.

Thank you for any help.

pdf.zip (81.1 KB)

[HansS]

Hi @smartie

See this wf parse_pdf.knwf (50.8 KB) . It extract your PDF. That is the easy part. The challenge is to convert the content of your pdf, a giant string, to useful data, columns, variables. I added an example with the Cell Splitter node, to give you some ideas how to move on.

gr. Hans