The application can convert scanned pdfs to docs and can extract table data to store in the form of a csv. The application is tuned to work on a specific structure of pdfs (similar to finanical entries)

Supports installation using docker

git pull https://github.com/twitu/byob
cd byob
docker build -t byob-app .

It can also be built from source
(Note: instructions are for bash only)

git pull https://github.com/twitu/byob
cd byob
virtualenv -p python3 byob_env
. byob_env/bin/activate
sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: use the documentation to mount the files/directory you want to convert

With the byob_env environment activated

python3 driver.py <arguments>

With docker use

docker run --rm byob-app:latest <arguments>

Use -h argument to get instructions for help
Use -f | --path to give path of file or directory
Use --csv | --doc to specify if you want to convert file to csv or doc
Use -m | --mode to select parsing mode (it is optional and default mode is standard)

GNU GPLv3 open source license