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Is that even possible!?! I have a bunch of legacy reports that I need to import into a database. However, they're all in pdf format. Are there any R packages that can read pdf? Or should I leave that to a command line tool? The reports were made in excel and then pdfed, so they have regular structure, but many blank "cells". Just a warning to others who may be hoping to extract data: PDF is a container, not a format. If the original document does not contain actual text, as opposed to bitmapped images of text or possibly even uglier things than I can imagine, nothing other than OCR can help

I am using the code at the far bottom to get weblink , and the Masjid name . however I would like to also get denomination and street address . please help I am stuck. Currently I am getting the following Weblink: <div class="subtitleLink"><a href="http://www.salatomatic.com/d/Tempe+5313+Masjid-Al-Hijrah"> and Masjid name <b>Masjid Al-Hijrah</b> But would like to get the below; Denomination <b>Denomination:</b> Sunni (Traditional) and street address <br>45 Station Street (Sydney)   The below code scrapes the following <td width=25><a href="http://www.salatomatic.com/d/Tempe+5313+Masjid-Al

in the following page: http://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Simpson-Womens-Double-Breasted/dp/B00K65ZMCA/ref=sr_1_4_mc/185-0705108-6790969?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1413083859&sr=1-4 I am trying to get the price with the expression '//span[@id="priceblock_ourprice"]' but the result is an empty variable. the interesting part is that In other amazon pages, like this one : http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Frustration-Free-Packaging--SDCZ36-032G-AFFP/dp/B007JR532M/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1413084653&sr=1-1&keywords=usb I do have an expression that works '//b[@class="priceLarge"]' But i dont even know

I am using phantomjs to learn how to scrape a webpage, so far I have developed the following code below.. I know that I am able to connect to the site, but I am unable to get data from the table at all..am I on the right track? My goal is to scrape data from the table on this site. I also understand that I need to use includeJs or injectJs to wait for the table to load else I would be scraping an empty html page. I am trying to put these concepts together, but am stuck for over 3 days now..please give some guidance.. var page = require('webpage').create(); console.log('Welcome to scraping...')

I have used JSOUP for scraping and its works perfectly till the ajax and javascript not playing their roles to display webpage content . Now guys any clue , how to scrape those content which get displayed with ajax or by JavaScript after page get loads completely . Thanks in advance !! Hemerson Varela You can use a headless browser as PhatomJS . PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG. In order to ease your work, You could use CapserJS CasperJS is a companion for

I would like to get the estimated results number from google for a keyword. Im using Python3.3 and try to accomplish this task with BeautifulSoup and urllib.request. This is my simple code so far def numResults(): try: page_google = '''http://www.google.de/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=pokerbonus&oq=pokerbonus&gs_l=hp.3..0i10l2j0i10i30l2.16503.18949.0.20819.10.9.0.1.1.0.413.2110.2-6j1j1.8.0....0...1c.1.19.psy-ab.FEBvxrgi0KU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48705608,d.Yms&''' req_google = Request(page_google) req_google.add_header('User Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0)