The Centre for Food Safety from Hong Kong has a PDF for registered Food Importer / Food Distributor and a simple enquiry form. However, the enquiry form is not providing all information on PDF for searching. This repo is to extract infomration from PDF directly to CSV for easier searching.

To check and download the extracted CSV, please click  
 Download CSV File 
 

Food Import Control System Official Site: https://www.fics.gov.hk/home/landingPage/index.htm?locale=zh&locale=zh

Official Searching System: https://www.fics.gov.hk/ie/tr/traderrecord/tray/index.htm

The workflow download_traderpdf.yml will run on 1st day of each month to download the latest PDF and save to data/registerTrader.pdf. Then the workflow will trigger extract_text_from_pdf.yml to extract text from PDF and create data/registerTrader.csv.

curl -o test.pdf https://www.fics.gov.hk/ie/tr/traderrecord/report/download_register.htm

Pre-requisite: Python 3+

Download the lastest PDF and update the fole location in scripts/.env then run below

python3 -m venv venv
.\venv\scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python extract_text_from_pdf.py

Note: The code are for running on Windows, it may require some adjustments for running on Mac or Linux