Parsing a PDF file

[Paul Dupuis]

On 7/8/2016 10:11 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
> My County is now publishing the election results to the web as a PDF file: 
>
> 	https://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/elections/docs/2016%20Elections/June%207%2c%202016%2c%20Presidential%20Primary/Election%20Results/precinctreport.pdf
>
> Is there a way to parse these PDF  files? 
>

The XPDF external will let you extract the text (and Images if there
were any). You will need to write code to parse the fields (separated by
white space) from each line if you want the numbers for analysis.