Is there any sample for capturing the address field

[rageshS]

Hi All,

I am a newbie in using invoice2data python library, and really satisfied with this. it was very useful for me. But I find some limitations in multiline data in the invoice pdf such as the address field. Here I explain one of the problem, that I faced while using invoice2data to extract address data, that is if our desired data field is a multiline data and one more data fields lie on the horizontal position ( I mean left side or right side, for example, 'Invoice Address' and 'Trading Address' ), there is a chance to concatenate this data together while the extraction time.

I think if write the regular expression for capture 'invoice address' field, it will capture the 'Trading address' text too. I already checked the templates provided in this git repository. But I can't find any example for the capture address field from the invoice pdf.

[rageshS]

Any update on this ?

[Jane-Ding]

Hi, rageshS,
Have u solved this problem? I also need to extract the address in multi-lines but it seems it can only use custom items which use fixed regex location to extract the address.

[rageshS]

Hi, rageshS,
Have u solved this problem? I also need to extract the address in multi-lines but it seems it can only use custom items which use fixed regex location to extract the address.

@Jane-Ding I didn't get any helpful answer, and still facing the issue. I think this is not activly maintained git repo.

[kavinsharma]

Hi, @rageshS @Jane-Ding ,
I have discovered one way to do it by capturing the text using the area as pdf2text supports x,y coordinates.
Yaml Template for area plugin :
area:
- name: "Address"
area: {x: 115,y: 124,r: 300,W: 412, H: 326}
regex: \w+
- name: "Bill_to"
area: {x: 930,y: 416,r: 300,W: 310, H: 294}

you can have a look at this guide might help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdLRe4MTmo&list=PLhPDb5zFmGR1CCSX_oxLGyPuHPbWEToSf