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Extracting tables from multiple PDFs

What's the best practice of extracting tables from a large number of PDF, which may be formatted differently? For example, I have a series of PDFs like this one, and I would like to extract the ...
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)

I'm interested in the data listed in the tables listed here. Is there a good way to extract the information (as JSON, preferably) without resorting to HTML parsing?
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What server and technologies can I use to extract data out of Wikipedia's infoboxes (e.g., ATC code for drugs)

Wikipedia is a significant source of data. Data from Wikipedia may be available in various formats via other servers (e.g., SPARQL end point). For a task of extracting all pairs of "ATC code" - "...
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Looking for web scraper that works on YouTube channel video catalogs

I'm trying to find a web scraper that will help me get detailed data from several YouTube channels I'm interested in researching. I've tried the trial version of Easy Web Extractor, but the processed ...
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Scientometric/bibliometric data retrieval from a list of DOI

I am a conducting bibliometric analysis on small/midsize sets of academic papers (40-400), in a longitudinal study (repeated over time on the same dataset). I am interest in retrieving data for each ...
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Parsing Curriculum Vitaes

I am wondering whether any of you could help me to find a tool that could help me to parse and extract data out of Curriculum Vitaes? I know that Sovren is a very good application but I can’t help ...
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