tabula-py

tabula-py is a simple Python wrapper of tabula-java, which can read table of PDF. You can read tables from PDF and convert into pandas's DataFrame.

Requirements

• Java
• pandas

Usage

Install

pip install tabula-py

Example

See example notebook

Options

• pages (str, int, list of int, optional)
  • An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str, int, list of int.
  • Example: 1, '1-2,3', 'all' or [1,2]. Default is 1
• guess (bool, optional):
  • Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page.
• area (list of float, optional):
  • Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right).
  • Example: [269.875, 12.75, 790.5, 561]. Default is entire page
• spreadsheet (bool, optional):
  • Force PDF to be extracted using spreadsheet-style extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
• nospreadsheet (bool, optional):
  • Force PDF not to be extracted using spreadsheet-style extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
• password (bool, optional):
  • Password to decrypt document. Default is empty
• silent (bool, optional):
  • Suppress all stderr output.