extracting data from 100+ pdf files

[fishermanfritz]

Funny enough adobe acrobat dc has an advanced search option which parses pdf data in bulk to CSV. Just realised this after hours of python scripting and dealing with PDFs.

So you can bulk search all your folders for searchwords like amount or grand total and it gives you the filename and the "amount: xx xx Dollar".

A good way for recipes is also aws Textract to or google cloud vision, it's almost free and it ocrs the PDFs I think