Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:04:21 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Convert PDF to Excel Message-ID: <20210123090421.7fb3ede1754fe280b685f83c@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20210123094041.f932fd4c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAAdA2WPoqEaew-OuDwAJ4pTbNUJsAzc2MpZE9di5HrJfGu%2Bexw@mail.gmail.com> <20210123054209.f03ac420.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAAdA2WP%2BAh6-9pFdB4VJg5asxqHKpEUNOrtxY0TsT9PVpWu26w@mail.gmail.com> <20210123094041.f932fd4c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:40:41 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > They contain text, so the OCR problem is out of the way. > Sadly, the text is re-arranged so the optimal solution (one > line in a table equals one line of text, with the columns > being separated by whitespace) does not appear, instead it > is the other way round: one line equals one column. I spy a fun interview question buried in this problem - flipping a text file like that efficiently is far from easy - dead easy if you don't mind eating memory of course. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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