SOS: Need help extracting data

[Shree D N]

This link has form 7 (list of candidates) for all contesting candidates for BBMP polls 2015. Typically all pdfs, scanned and uploaded. Language: Kannada
http://117.247.176.82/

Is there a way to download it all and merge into one document or a table that represents the list of all candidates for all wards??
We are trying to put this together because this consolidated list is not available anywhere as far as I know. Has anyone else seen it?

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[Bhanu Kamapantula]

Hi Shree,

You would want to write a script which can scrape the data from the website. This can be automated using Python, mechanize library (with support for doPostBack calls as in these webpages).

Once downloaded, PDFs can be combined using PDFtk library (one among different methods). Then, XPDF might be useful to retrieve text from the combined PDF.

best,

Bhanu

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[Shree D N]

We downloaded it all manually. However unable to merge them. The text is in Kannada, and may be unclear even if we are able to extract it. We have anyway merged some data manually, from these 190+ files to existing data we had already prepared.

Digitizing it all starting from the affidavit filing stage would have helped us greatly but sadly BBMP or EC or SEC doesn't have that system.

[Nikhil VJ]

Is your target text in text form or image form?

If text: http://tabula.technology/

If image: http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-kannada-ocr

If image with handwritten text : interns :P

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