This script is used to read in the budget data of the Canton of Bern from PDF.

Requires Python 2+ and pdfminer

Data sources

• Canton of Bern Budget 2013-2014 (PDF)

Usage instructions

Use virtualbox to create a local env, then

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the script appending the PDF filename

$ python mine.py data/sample.pdf > output/sample.json

Alternative usage with pdfminer

Download and compile pdfminer

$ git clone https://github.com/euske/pdfminer.git

Make a symlink in this folder

$ ln -s ../pdfminer/build/lib/pdfminer

Run the script appending the PDF filename

$ python mine.py data/sample.pdf > output/sample.json