Having trouble with a daily PDF report

[cbg-dev]

Hello,

I am trying to extract the names from this PDF file and hopefully get it in a format where I can just output the names into an excel spreadsheet like below in a single cell.

testpdf.pdf

i'm having trouble trying to figure out how to isolate for just the names and not the time/size on the right.

the image below is what i am aiming for

[jsfenfen]

You might look at the table extraction example. https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/blob/stable/examples/notebooks/extract-table-nics.ipynb

[jsvine]

In addition to @jsfenfen's suggestion, using Page.crop(bbox) may help: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber#the-pdfplumberpage-class

... that is: Crop the page to just the left half, and then run the text extraction on the cropped page instance.