Convert PDF to Excel

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 12:04, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

> 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.


On of my FreeBSD servers has 16GB RAM and a good CPU.
My laptop has 32GB RAM and also a good CPU. I could dedicate 24GB to the
process if I run it on a VM.

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