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Post codes against Zone, Area, Location extracted from Parcelforce post cost list PDF

https://www.parcelforce.com/sites/default/files/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf

Parcelforce PDF Input

Excel Output

python cli.py ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf ./output/output.csv
python cli.py ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf ./output/output.xlsx
python cli.py ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf ./output/output.json

Page 7 is the troublesome page as it has 3 zones. Using Camelot cli we can get the table co-ordinates and extract them individually for processing.

Show page 7 grid

camelot --pages 7 stream -plot grid ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf

Page 7, Zone 1 Grid

camelot --pages 7 stream -plot grid -T 40,770,537,537 ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf

Page 7, Zone 2 Grid

camelot --pages 7 stream -plot grid -T 40,510,537,320 ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf

Page 7, Zone 3 Grid

camelot --pages 7 stream -plot grid -T 40,290,537,180 ./input/UKPostcodelistv2Aug19.pdf