A versatile tool designed to streamline the extraction of list items from PDF documents and the merging of CSV files, ensuring unique identification across datasets.

• Extract Items from PDF: Convert list-like structures in PDF documents into structured CSV format.
• Merge CSV Files: Combine multiple CSV files into a single file, maintaining unique IDs through a newly generated sequential ID column.

• Python 3.6+
• PyMuPDF (fitz)
• Pandas
• Typer

Clone the repository and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/GeroZayas/PDF-itemslist-extractor.git

cd PDF-itemslist-extractor

pip install -r requirements.txt

Extract Items from PDF

python your_script_name.py extract_and_save./path/to/your/pdf/file.pdf./desired/output/path/

Merge Multiple CSV Files

python your_script_name.py merge_csv_files./file1.csv./file2.csv./merged_output.csv

Assuming you have a PDF named example.pdf and two CSV files named data1.csv and data2.csv, you can extract items from the PDF and merge the CSV files as follows:

python your_script_name.py extract_and_save./example.pdf./extracted_items.csv

python your_script_name.py merge_csv_files./data1.csv./data2.csv./merged_data.csv

Contributions are welcome Feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss improvements or report bugs.

Gero Zayas - @gerozayas

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