chezou/tabula-py

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tabula-py is a Python wrapper around tabula-java that extracts tables from PDF files into pandas DataFrames. It can also convert PDFs directly into CSV, TSV, or JSON files, including batch conversion of whole directories.

Use cases

• extract tables from pdf into pandas dataframe
• convert pdf tables to csv
• scrape tabular data from pdf reports
• batch convert many pdfs to csv or
• read remote pdf files and parse their tables
• pull financial or research tables out of pdf documents

When to choose

• you need structured table data from text-based PDFs in a Python/pandas workflow
• you want simple PDF-to-CSV/TSV/JSON conversion with minimal code
• you're okay with a Java runtime dependency in exchange for tabula-java's mature extraction engine

When to avoid

• you need to extract tables from scanned PDFs requiring OCR
• you cannot install or rely on a Java runtime
• you need pure-Python PDF parsing or deep control over PDF internals

Facets

library · maturity stable

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