Tabula-service

Simple Camel REST service around Tabula. The service allows uploading a pdf (not image based) to http://host:port/upload/pdf and returns any found tables as csv.

Give it a spin in the IDE

mvn clean compile exec:java -Pmain

Build fat jar

mvn clean package

Run it

java -Dhost=localhost -Dport=8083 -cp ./tabula-service-fat-0.0.1.jar nl.beroco.tools.PxQ

Upload a pdf

#!/bin/bash
# save as upload.sh and execute with ./upload.sh /path/to/a/pdf
curl -X POST \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d @- "http://localhost:8083/upload/pdf" <<EOF
 { "commandLine": "-l  --format CSV -p 1-LAST --guess ", "base64EncodedPdf": "$(base64 -w 0 ${1})"}
EOF

Install with systemd

Contents of /etc/systemd/system/tabula.service:

[Unit]
Description=Tabula service

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/somewhere/tabula
ExecStart=/bin/java -Xms128m -Xmx256m -cp /path/to/tabula-service-fat-0.0.1.jar -Dhost=0.0.0.0 -Dport=8083 nl.beroco.tools.PxQ
User=user
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target