camelot-dev/camelot
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A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2020-09-14 · latest 2025-09-23
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…worked very well for me with bank statements. Disclaimer: I'm one of the core contributors. [1] https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot
comment by vortex_ape · 2025-09-23 · in OpenDataLoader-PDF: An open source tool for structured PDF parsing -
I had good repeated success extracting tables from PDFs using Camelot (Python, https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot )
comment by mcbetz · 2024-01-03 · in How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python -
I guess these are the two projects you are talking about: https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur
comment by pabs3 · 2021-06-08 · in Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files -
…there's a PR[1] which will add OCR support (using EasyOCR) for image-based PDFs in some time. [1] https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/pull/209
comment by vortex_ape · 2021-03-10 · in Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV -
Looks like it's a bit in-progress: https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/pull/209 "Update docs" isn't checked, and that's what I was going on.
comment by mkl · 2021-03-10 · in Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV -
I would encourage you to look into the camelot python module - https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot . I've worked with this for almost a year and it does work for most conventional tables and pdfs.
comment by teodorivanov624 · 2020-09-15 · in What's so hard about PDF text extraction? -
…it on its comparison page[1] but I've had better results. Both are better than Tabula though. [1] https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/wiki/Comparison-with-...
comment by nl · 2020-09-14 · in What's so hard about PDF text extraction?