This is not the specific code you need, just a demo of how to work with BeautifulSoup. It finds the table who’s id is “Table1” and gets all of its tr elements. html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() bs = BeautifulSoup(html) table = bs.find(lambda tag: tag.name==’table’ and tag.has_attr(‘id’) and tag[‘id’]==”Table1″) rows = table.findAll(lambda tag: tag.name==’tr’)
You will need to devise an algorithm to extract the data in a usable format. Regardless of which PDF library you use, you will need to do this. Characters and graphics are drawn by a series of stateful drawing operations, i.e. move to this position on the screen and draw the glyph for character ‘c’. … Read more
I’ve read this question long time ago, and finished writing my own pretty-printer for tables: tabulate. My use case is: I want a one-liner most of the time which is smart enough to figure the best formatting for me and can output different plain-text formats Given your example, grid is probably the most similar output … Read more
Use System.out.format . You can set lengths of fields like this: System.out.format(“%32s%10d%16s”, string1, int1, string2); This pads string1, int1, and string2 to 32, 10, and 16 characters, respectively. See the Javadocs for java.util.Formatter for more information on the syntax (System.out.format uses a Formatter internally).