Every month, TRAI releases its Telecom Subscription Reports in a notoriously challenging format. I’ve tested numerous paid and free PDF tools, all in vain. Extracting data from these PDF files for processing and visualization has been a time-consuming ordeal. Today, I’m sharing my code that effortlessly retrieves this information swiftly and without the need for external tools. As long as the PDF formatting remains consistent, this code continues to perform seamlessly, which has been the case for quite some time.
For the sake of clarity in debugging, I’ve divided the code into straightforward steps, outlined below.
