13.RPA Challenge - PDF Scrapping

[charliefik (Clark Coleman)]

I tried scraping the entire page (iexplorer, I know that beesheep did it in chrome but I wanted to try and make it a bit more robust for me as I’ve had so many issues with OCR scraping) and that was just useless so much data was not scraped especially the bits you actually needed. I thought it was better to find an image in each row of data and then just search for the tick boxes in an area in that row but I’ve had some issues with that approach

Challenge 13

There is a challenge which I’m currently looking at The idea is that you open a pdf document and then go through several lines in the document working out which of 3 check boxes have been ticked in each row. To give an indication of row position I look for a text string found in each row. I use that as a starting point to generate a region (this is where it is going wrong I think) that I want to search for the tick box (My method the region doesn’t seem to be changing so I always pick the s…

(I put it in rookies as this topic was last updated ages ago and I think I need some help at this point)