A lot of data on public as well as private sources is stored in the PDF format. The inter-convertability of different document formats to PDF makes it a universal format. The PDF Table Extraction extension eases the task of extracting data tables out of PDF documents and importing them into RapidMiner. This can greatly assist in various data mining tasks as illustrated in the Blog post on PDF Table Extraction extension.
Release of PDF Table Extraction extension
Extract data tables from the PDF
