Options for Lattice / Stream Mode ?

[psychemedia]

The tabulapdf/tabula-java packages and API seems to have moved on compared to ropensci/tabulizer, for example in terms of the lattice and stream options.

Is support for these planned?

I think these options make it easier to extract multiple tables from a single page, eg as queried in #22 ?

[leeper]

lattice is the new name for spreadsheet. stream is not supported in tabulizer (yet).

[tpaskhalis]

The stream option in Tabula is essentially equivalent to spreadsheet = FALSE in tabulizer. While lattice would be spreadsheet = TRUE. I restructured the code to be consistent with Tabula nomenclature. It's available on the development branch: tabulizer/pdfbox2.0, which works together with the development branch of tabulizerjars/tabula1.0.0. So, something like that would work:

tab <- extract_tables(f, method = "stream")

The only key difference is that the default option decide as in the current version of Tabula applies to each page individually. Which, as you suggested, makes it somewhat easier to extract multiple inconsistent tables from one page.

[leeper]

@maelle I apparently don't have the ability to add contributors to this repo. Can you add @tpaskhalis, giving him edit/push rights here and on tabulizerjars?

[maelle]

Ok so I

• Created a team and invited @tpaskhalis to it. The team has write access to this repo.

• Made you an admin @leeper

Should the team also get write access to tabulizerjars?

[maelle]

Oops I should have read better am gonna add the second repo for the team sorry

[tpaskhalis]

Many thanks, @maelle!

[maelle]

Thank you!

[tpaskhalis]

The options are now available on the master branch (#83). Please, update and reinstall the package. Check ?extract_tables for further details.