Selecting specific data from pdf

%Trying to obtain any values between 48-64 and corresponding values in the
%column to the right 
%For example the first line with value 58 in third column and would like to also
%obtain 100 from it 
%I tried extracting the pdf first but unsure of where to go from here
clear;
pages = [1:18];
str = extractFileText("data-01.pdf",'Pages',pages);

Answer 1

[Riya]

Hello Nathaniel Porter,

As per my understanding, you want to obtain specific values from a PDF file. Such that values are between 48 and 64 in a specific column and want to retrieve the corresponding values in the column to the right.

You can follow the steps given below for the same:

% Split the text into lines 
lines = splitlines(str); 

% Initialize variables 
result = []; 

% Iterate over the lines 
for i = 1:numel(lines) 
    line = lines{i}; 
    
    % Use regular expressions to find values between 48 and 64 in the third column 
    pattern = '\d+\s+\d+\s+([48-64])\s+(\d+)'; 
    match = regexp(line, pattern, 'tokens'); 
    
    % If a match is found, extract the values 
    if ~isempty(match) 
        value = str2double(match{1}{1}); 
        correspondingValue = str2double(match{1}{2}); 
        
        % Store the values in the result 
        result = [result; value, correspondingValue]; 
    end 
end 

% Display the result 
disp(result); 

For more information about ‘regexp’, you can refer the following documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/regexp.html?searchHighlight=regexp&s_tid=srchtitle_support_results_1_regexp

I hope it helps!