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Ask HN: What's a good library/command line tool to extract tables from PDFs?

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by alfarez • 3 years ago

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UglyToad• 3 years ago

There's probably newer AI powered tools but Tabula is the main library I know of https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

phiv2• 3 years ago

have not tried it, but this has been in my bookmarks a while: https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur

andrewio• 3 years ago

You can use a PDF parser tool to extract data from PDF tables. I'm building parsio.io - we use pre-trained AI-powered parsers to parse PDF tables: https://parsio.io/table-extraction/. Another example us Tabula (free)

phiv2• 3 years ago

there is also this option: https://docs.ropensci.org/tabulizer/

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