It works on most lines, but occasionally gets confused and outputs data in a different layout from the original.
I really need it to be accurate because even the original is fiddly to deal with.
It's basically 2 sets of columns of variable blocks of data, that also wrap around from the bottom of the left-hand column to the top of the right hand column on each page, then wraps to the top of the left-hand column on the next page etc ...
eg (short example):
name1  1,2,3,4          8,9,10

                  name3 1,2,3,4,5   
              
name  1,2,34,    name4  1,2,3,4
      5,6,7,

[download]
but what i sometimes get is:
name1  1,2,3,4          8,9,10

                  name3 1,2,3,4,5 

                        1,2,3,4
                  name4
name 1,2,34,
     5,6,7

[download]
Ther's a lot more of this ... also, the separations between names, nums, left, right cols are variable...

In reply to Re^2: PDF to Text by chrism01
in thread PDF to Text by chrism01

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