<![CDATA[Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't)]]>"If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux."

https://tabula.technology
https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula

Tend to use this a lot for transcribing long PDF invoices.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2814/tabula-extracts-table-data-from-pdfs-when-copy-paste-often-doesn-tRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 09:56:53 GMTSun, 12 Jul 2020 23:53:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:18:05 GMT]]>@marcusquinn

By encouraging people to use Free Software, like LibreOffice, for their document creation, they will benefit from being able to export their final draft as a PDF with an embeded .odf for easy data extraction. It can also archive according to ISO / archiving standards, where needed.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64293https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64293Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:18:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:33:11 GMT]]>Python wrapper, too: https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64287https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64287Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:33:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:30:17 GMT]]>Might seem unmaintained, but still works well, and remains the only open-source option for that that I know of.

Becoming more important as a library to use in other LLM data analysis needs.

Dockerised, too, should be relatively simple:

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64286https://forum.cloudron.io/post/64286Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:30:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:25:40 GMT]]>Revisiting this, the app runs on a localhost web server, hence could be a useful additional utility for teams to have access to at tabula.example.com.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/33171https://forum.cloudron.io/post/33171Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:25:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:23:40 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates Ahh, I thought there was a web app/service version. Prob needs moving to Discuss then if mods can?

Also for interest, it's pretty easy to send a scanned/image PDF to Google Vision using Integromat to OCR and extract text.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/10720https://forum.cloudron.io/post/10720Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:23:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tabula - extracts table data from PDFs (when copy-paste often doesn't) on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:15:15 GMT]]>@marcusquinn sounds like a useful tool, but appears to just be a desktop app and not a web app? So not sure how relevant it is to Cloudron...

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/10719https://forum.cloudron.io/post/10719Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:15:15 GMT