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

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Post by alfarez » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 7:45 AM UTC

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

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Post by UglyToad » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 9:17 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by phiv » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 12:41 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by andrewio » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 10:06 AM UTC

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)

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

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Post by phiv » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

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