Ithaca Police Department's incident logs are exported in image-only (non-searchable, non-selectable) PDFs. These are scripts to download logs and use OCR to extract text from them.
Install these apt packages:
sudo apt install cmake libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr poppler-utils
Install these pip packages
sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4 requests pytesseract pdf2image tesseract-ocr Pillow
Run get-logs.py to download the latest from IPD's incident logs website:
python3 get-logs.py
Run pdf2txt.py to iterate through PDFs and extract text from them via OCR:
python3 pdf2txt.py
Clean up formatting, convert to csv