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Extract information from PDF invoices
https://github.com/robocorp/example-parse-pdf-invoice

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Extract information from PDF invoices

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# Extract data from PDF files displaying invoice like information

Show-case multiple ways of extracting information from different kinds of PDF files
(text based or scans), mainly presenting invoice data.

Read more on the
[challenges](https://pypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/extract-text.html) of getting
information out of PDF files.

## Tasks

### Extract Text Data

Extract textual data from a PDF file.

> Usually this is sufficient for most of the cases.

### Extract element from table in PDF

In some cases, it may be easier to find the elements and their neighbours instead of just parsing the text. In this example we find rows and columns from a table in a PDF document.