title: Scraping data from PDF to CSV? Python vs PHP?
body: <p>I have a bunch of reports that I'm hand-compiling every day and it's taking forever, so I was thinking of automating the whole process. I will be scraping data from: (1) HTML, (2) CSV/XLS, (3) PDF. I have mainly only scraped data from CSV/HTML with PHP and was wondering if there are any dependable libraries or ways of grabbing table data from a PDF in PHP?</p>
  
  <p>I have also just started learning Python and see that it might be a good idea to try doing this with PDFMiner in conjunction with Scrapy. Would this be better? Or are there other options?</p>
  
  <p>Please let me know. Thanks!</p>