Convert PDF to Excel

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sat Jan 23 09:04:29 UTC 2021


On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:40:41 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> They contain text, so the OCR problem is out of the way.
> Sadly, the text is re-arranged so the optimal solution (one
> line in a table equals one line of text, with the columns
> being separated by whitespace) does not appear, instead it
> is the other way round: one line equals one column.

	I spy a fun interview question buried in this problem - flipping a
text file like that efficiently is far from easy - dead easy if you
don't mind eating memory of course.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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