Scraping large pdf tables which span across multiple pages

Question

I am trying to scrape PDF tables which span across multiple pages. I tried many things but the best seems to be pdftotext -layout as advised here. The problem is t

Answer 1

If you're wary of diving too deeply into Python or other code-based solutions, a completely different approach for a quick and dirty solution for a small number of pdfs is to outsource the task to MechanicalTurk.

Having multiple users per column allows you to double-check the submitted answers, and you can also publish the resulting .csv table and pay a large amount (say, $5) for every error that a worker can find. Often ends up being way cheaper than your or others' time programming a solution.