Introduction

Need to see which roll numbers belong to which people in the pdf which can be downloaded from ERP for internships/ placements?

You are at the right place.

Installation

Make sure you have Java Development Kit (SE Edition) installed since we use tabula to read pdfs which in return depends on Java.

Setup virtual environment in Python3 using:

virtualenv -p python3 .venv/

Activate it in a shell using:

source .venv/bin/activate

Install Dependencies

pip install tabula-py

Usage

python main.py <filename>

For testing on sample file (test.pdf):

python main.py test.pdf