How to extract numbers in a PDF file?

I'm trying to extract numbers in a PDF file using extractFileText function. It returns string format data by reading a PDF file; however, the string data is not relevant for extracting numbers since the numbers are stuck together.

Let me show an example.

This is what I want to extract:

What I get is as follow:

Norm106.1696.589.589.92>102,17.5Sel58.5459.09-0.55-0.57NA0,-0.5Max106.1698.557.617.88

But when I copied the text by the ctrl+c in the PDF file, I got the result like this:

Norm Sel Max

106.16 58.54 106.16

58.73 96.58 59.09 98.55

9.58 -0.55 7.61

I'd like to separate the numbers in the string data or import text with spaces, at least.

What is the best way in this case?

Answer 1

[Ronak Panchal]

Hi Kwangho Cheong,

You can use the function split() to split your output data

For eg:

Data = extractBetween ();

This gave me an output:

USEPoint#Cut↵↵[%]

a = split(Data);

Ouput: