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  • 1.  Input for Excel & PDF

    Employee
    Posted 04-06-2011 08:04

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    Originally posted by: dwong80

    Can BRAIN graphs import/read data from Excel spreadsheets and/or PDF files, somehow parse them and use them for processing?


  • 2.  RE: Input for Excel & PDF

    Employee
    Posted 04-06-2011 08:07

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    Originally posted by: stonysmith

    Excel, yes. PDF, no. PDFs can be acual scanned images.. we have no facility to do OCR on those.

    Depending upon your version of BRE, you can turn on "Experimental" nodes and there is an Excel Reader then available.


  • 3.  RE: Input for Excel & PDF

    Employee
    Posted 05-02-2011 16:58

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    Originally posted by: rpigneri

    Dear dwong80,

    In the past, I have used the pdftotext utility in Xpdf on Linux to convert PDF files to text. It is also available on Windows although I have not used that version. My first attempt using it was very successful. However, do keep in mind that if the PDF is an image of text rather than text itself, pdftotext won't be able to convert anything. I think that you can check by seeing if you can select the text in the PDF itself before trying to run pdftotext, but I could be wrong.

    Hope that helps!

    Rocco