#9 Basic Python Data Extraction from Text Files

[@soccerfan5908]

Great video, It would be nice if you could explain it with more detail the code. The only thing I couldn't figure out was how did you get the break in the lines. I type all the code but always get the result like this: ['Keyboard ', '3', 'million'], ['Note ', '11', 'thousand'], . ? What do you think can be? I'm using Visual Studio code.

[@bennguyen1313]

Not sure how to choose from the many python packages to extract data from a PDF.. PyMuPDF,PyPDF2 , PDFplumber, tabula-py, etc..
For example, what if the PDF is a scan of a paper document.. i.e. it's crooked, and quality is bad. Is there one that does it best? Or maybe I should use AI (ChatGPT + GPT4Vision/Ai PDF) to do an OCR, then have it extract the data?
Also any suggestions how to get the values from specific columns in a text file. For example, I have a text file with data like this:
#Time (HHH:MM:SS): 002:34:02
# T(ms) BUS CMD1 CMD2 FROM SA TO SA WC TXST RXST ERROR DT00 DT01 DT02 DT03 DT04 DT05 DT06 DT07
# ===== === ==== ==== ==== == ==== == == ==== ==== ====== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====
816 B0 D84E BC RT27 2 14 D800 2100 0316 0000 0000 0000 0000 CCCD 0000
817 A0 DC50 RT27 2 BC 16 D800 2120 0000 4080 3000 0000 3000 0000 0000
#Time (HHH:MM:SS): 002:34:03
# T(ms) BUS CMD1 CMD2 FROM SA TO SA WC TXST RXST ERROR DT00 DT01 DT02 DT03 DT04 DT05 DT06 DT07
# ===== === ==== ==== ==== == ==== == == ==== ==== ====== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====
056 B0 D84E BC RT27 2 14 D800 2100 0316 0000 0000 0000 0000 CCCD 0000
057 A0 DC50 RT27 2 BC 16 D800 2120 0000 4080 3000 0000 3000 0000 0000
How can get just the data from DT00 thru DT07 into an array, without doing lots of preprocessing to scrub out the repeating #Time headers that appear throughout the file?