How do I extract data from a PDF using web scraping tools?

[Chico Cleisthenes]

Selenium can download the PDF, and then you can extract content using libraries like PyMuPDF.

[Oskar Dannie]

For OCR-based PDFs, try Tesseract to extract text from images within the PDF.

[kibik31958]

When extracting data from PDFs with web scraping tools, I usually start by checking whether the document contains selectable text or scanned images because that changes the approach completely. If I need to convert pages into a more workable format first, I often use https://jpgtopdf.com/ since it makes organizing and preparing files much easier before processing them further. After that, combining OCR, PDF parsers, and scraping libraries usually delivers cleaner, more reliable results with less manual correction.