Markus Konrad
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMarkus Konrad is a Berlin-based software engineer with 13 years of experience combining data analysis and backend development in Python and R. He specializes in building tooling for messy, real-world data — notably contributing to pdftabextract by implementing rotated-page detection and robust text-box handling to extract tables from OCR-processed PDFs. Markus bridges analytics and engineering, turning data-mining challenges into dependable backend systems and reusable libraries. His work shows a particular talent for solving the edge cases in document parsing that commonly break automated pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
data-extraction10
data-mining10
ocr10
pdf10
pdf-processing10
ocra10
python10
image-processing10
datastructures9
datastructure9
data-structure9
hough-transform9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WZBSocialScienceCenter/pdftabextract
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:169 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Markus appears to be focused on developing and refining functionality for extracting table data from PDF files, as indicated by the edits to the `ipynotes.py` and `pdftabextract.py` files. These changes include adding functions for handling text elements, particularly those related to rotated pages, and starting an implementation within `pdftabextract.py`. The changes demonstrate work on core functionalities like page rotation angle detection and text box position updates.
pythonpdfminingdata-miningto-do
internaut/py-lbg
Jan 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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