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Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files
16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2013-04-05 · latest 2026-05-08
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…auto-detect tables, select "Stream", and then export to a CSV. [1] https://tabula.technology/ [1] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by Steve44 · 2026-05-08 · in The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs -
re: OCR of tables, would the work done on https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula / https://tabula.technology/ be relevant?
comment by xnobodyx · 2026-04-22 · in Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica -
Maybe you can use tabula [0] to extract the information from the PDF? https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by petemir · 2025-01-09 · in Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review -
…seems to have stalled but if popped up a few times on HN in the past. Might still be worth a look. https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula Are the documents scans, or do they have real text on them? It’s worth trying to convert them to svg or…
comment by aidos · 2023-09-05 · in So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020) -
…The project I had in mind was similar to this one but I can't remember the name currently: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula However, if you're looking for a ML-based, invoice-specific project looks like the other comment to your reply…
comment by follower · 2021-11-06 · in Pdfsandwich -
…to their website. You just point the browser to 'localhost:port' while the server is running. [1]: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by leggomylibro · 2020-04-20 · in A simple browser-based hexapod robot simulator built from first principles -
Hi, author and maintainer of Tabula ( https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula ). We've been trying to contact you about the "Tabula Pro" version that you are offering. Feel free to reachme at manuel at jazzido dot com
comment by jazzido · 2020-03-03 · in What's so hard about PDF text extraction? -
My favorite tool for extracting data from PDFs: Tabula https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by Cactus2018 · 2019-03-25 · in My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular -
…whole pdf - you've to do a manual rectangular selection around the table you want to extract. 1. https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by msravi · 2019-02-22 · in How to Run SQL on PDF Files -
Interesting. I've used Tabula [0] in the past with great success. I wonder how this compares. [0]: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
comment by nerdponx · 2018-10-12 · in A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs -
Unfortunately, it doesn't. From https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula : > Caveat: Tabula only works on text-based PDFs, not scanned documents. If you can click-and-drag to select text in your table in a PDF viewer (even if the output is…
comment by josephfrazier · 2017-01-11 · in New Jersey Open Data Initiative -
Hi. Can you share the PDF with us on our issue tracker? ( https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula/issues ) We'd be happy to take a look at it
comment by jazzido · 2015-08-07 · in Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs -
It embeds the free-software version of JPedal: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula/tree/master/lib/jars Unfortunately it looks like the developers of JPedal decided to discontinue the LGPL version and focus on the proprietary version, so…
comment by _delirium · 2015-08-07 · in Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs -
Luckily there is TabulaPDF https://github.com/jazzido/tabula (Open source, made with a grant by the Knight Foundation) A lot of praise from journalist in their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/TabulaPDF
comment by alecco · 2014-05-10 · in We scraped the World Bank's website -
Have you tried using tabula? https://github.com/jazzido/tabula
comment by chedar · 2013-05-06 · in Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format -
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Tabula: liberate data from PDFsstory by gmac · 2013-04-05 · 0 comments