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I had been meaning to find or write a tool like this for ages -- often times the only place where you can find pinout information for a chip is from a table buried on page 7xx of a massive pdf datasheet. Trying to create a symbol for, e.g. a 200+ ball BGA is awful.


Some PDF readers would let you copy and paste the tables as tabular data into Excel, at least with some ST datasheets. Had to find the right combination of reader and operating system for that.


Exactly the application I had in my mind. aperrin, does the tool recognize letters as well, or is it numbers only for now?


Hi ! Tesseract is used to recognize numbers as strings, which are then casted into floats. So it actually does recognize letters, but during the cast it will generate an error and outputs as numpy.inf ; but this was a choice of mine, and one can easily change the code to cast detections into integers, except when it is a letter in which case keep it as a string. :-)




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