Unable to extract table or text

[atulpuri]

Hi, I have been trying to extract tables using the extract_tables function which was working well until I updated to the newer version.

Most functions are now returning the same error:
ValueError: Cannot convert None to Decimal.

This error occurred when I tried the functions extract_table, extract_tables, find_tables, extract_text and extract_words. I have not changed the table settings from the default. The pdf I tried this on was https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/blob/master/examples/pdfs/ca-warn-report.pdf

Please let me know what may be causing this error and how it can be worked around.

[jsvine]

Hi, @atulpuri, and thanks for opening this issue! Those functions seem to be working fine for me on that PDF. For instance, when I run this code:

import pdfplumber
pdf = pdfplumber.open("ca-warn-report.pdf")
print(pdf.pages[0].extract_table())

... I get this:

[['Notice Date', 'Effective', 'Received', 'Company', 'City', 'No. Of', 'Layoff/Closure'], ['06/22/2015', '0  3  / 2  5  / 2  0  16', '0  7  / 0  1  / 2  0  15', 'Maxim Integrated Product', 'San Jose', '150', 'Closure Permanent'], ['06/30/2015', '0  8  / 2  9  / 2  0  15', '0  7  / 0  1  / 2  0  15', 'McGraw-Hill Education', 'Monterey', '137', 'Layoff Unknown at this time'], ['06/30/2015', '0  8  / 3  0  / 2  0  15', '0  7  / 0  1  / 2  0  15', 'Long Beach Memorial Medical Center', 'Long Beach', '90', 'Layoff Permanent'], ['07/01/2015', '0  9  / 0  2  / 2  0  15', '0  7  / 0  1  / 2  0  15', 'Leidos', 'El Segundo', '72', 'Layoff Permanent'] [...]

In order to investigate further, it'd be helpful to have the following:

• The particular snippet of code you're using
• The full error message it produces
• The version of Python you're using
• Your operating system

[atulpuri]

Hi, @jsvine, the error I mentioned isn't appearing any longer.

The code snippet I used was the same as posted by you.
Since the error isn't appearing any longer I cannot send the entire error message, but the error was appearing in the decimalize function in utils.
I am using Python 3.5 on a windows 7 machine.

Thank you, and sorry about the bother.