Tabula
Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
28/100
- Activity 11
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4923
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 537
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
7472 stars · 699 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Tabula is a local web application for extracting data tables from text-based PDF files into CSV, Excel, or JSON. It is powered by the tabula-java library and runs entirely on the user's machine.
Use cases
- extract tables from pdf to csv
- convert pdf tables to excel spreadsheet
- scrape tabular data from pdf reports
- liberate data trapped in pdf files
- turn pdf financial reports into analyzable data
- extract tables from text-based pdfs for research
When to choose
- you need tables out of text-based (not scanned) PDFs
- you want a free, offline tool that keeps documents private
- you prefer a visual interface for selecting table regions
- you want a scriptable Java library via tabula-java
When to avoid
- your PDFs are scanned images requiring OCR
- you need an actively developed end-user application (the GUI app sees few updates)
- you need complex layout understanding beyond simple tables
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
pdf web-scraping data-science ocr pdf data-science files developer-tools windows cross-platform jvm pdf-table-extraction csv-export excel-export local-web-interface tabula-java macos linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula · fetched 2026-08-28 · 91c7cbfbd3db
- homepage: http://tabula.technology · fetched 2026-08-29 · 98129a7c8c0b
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| tabulapdf/tabula | main | 28 |
| tabulapdf/tabula-java | backend | 28 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="tabulapdf/tabula")
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