# Tabula

Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files

Repository: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tabula
Homepage: http://tabula.technology
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pdf, csv, excel, tables, scraping
Last push: 2025-03-14T14:04:33+00:00
Link (homepage): http://tabula.technology

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 28/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 11, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4923, "days_push": 537, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7472, forks 699 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:00.153309+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: pdf, web-scraping, data-science, ocr
- domain: pdf, data-science, files, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, jvm
- tags: pdf-table-extraction, csv-export, excel-export, local-web-interface, tabula-java, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- tabulapdf/tabula (main) score 28
- tabulapdf/tabula-java (backend) score 28

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.153309+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:37:37.162588+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.153309+00:00, sha 91c7cbfbd3db)
  - homepage: http://tabula.technology (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:53.464137+00:00, sha 98129a7c8c0b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.