- From: Holm, Jeanne M (1760) <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:29:55 +0000
- To: Hatem Ben Yacoub <hatemben@gmail.com>, "eGov IG (Public)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Hatem-- Very cool indeed! A great product and I'll definitely be looking further into it. Thanks for sharing. --Jeanne ********************************************************** Jeanne Holm Evangelist, Data.gov U.S. General Services Administration Cell: (818) 434-5037 Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn: JeanneHolm ********************************************************** On 4/3/13 1:25 PM, "Hatem Ben Yacoub" <hatemben@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >One of the problems that many Open Government data projects faces is >the availability of tons of old documents in PDF format, which is not >open and reusable format. Today, Mozilla announced Tabula, a new tool >to help liberate tables trapped in PDFs. > >The online demo is amazing : http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ > >To use it simply make a rectangular selection over tables on the PDF >pages. (Avoid headers) > >Sources https://github.com/jazzido/tabula > >Official announcement : >http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/ > > >Best, >-- >Eng. Hatem Ben Yacoub >ICT & eGOV Consultant >http://hbyconsultancy.com > >http://twitter.com/hatem >http://facebook.com/hatemben >
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