How can I automatically extract data from PDFs based on keywords?

You can do it yourself with the help of the open source projects, pdfbox or xpdf, or let me do it for you with a little fee.

See if this helps: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-acrobat-x/saving-search-results-in-acrobat/

Thanks for the three previous answers.  I am organizing a hackathon with the Sunlight Foundation to address the problem of PDF data extraction. Here is the announcement:  http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Finance/events/145743722/

If you do not require OCR, then there are several options available, including: PDFMiner (Python): https://github.com/euske/pdfminer/ PyPDF2 (Python): https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pdftotext (Command Line): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext Alternatively, if you don't want to have to code the integrations and manipulations yourself, then http://taskpipes.com might be useful for you. TaskPipes allows you to parse PDFs and other file types and reformat the data as required through the online user interface. (Full disclosure: I am the co-founder of TaskPipes)

You can use IntelliGet ( http://www.mountonetech.com/intelliget ) for this. You can specify markers in multiple ways: keyword(s) in the same line or on a different line, a combination of keywords, length of the line, line number, etc. You can create as complex a marker as you require. Once you have tested the extraction, you can run it on multiple files - it can extract from hundreds of files in a minute.

There are a few email parser softwares out there that do it pretty well, provided there is not a need for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).I use http://mailparser.io, here is their blog article on parsing pdf data: https://mailparser.io/blog/convert-pdf-files-to-google-spreadsheet?utm_source=quora. This email parser has the most flexibility to get what you need, that I’ve seen.Also, Zapier has some pretty good options for email parsing (albeit a lighter version), and then zapping over to other Apps too, see here: https://parser.zapier.com/.Good Luck!

You can use PDF Box or I-Text pdf processor apis to convert pdfs into html document or text document. Later using regular expression we can identify the pattern to extract the data. Both PDF Box and I-Text provides their open source libraries, you can implement that using any one of high-level programming like java to achieve your need.