![]() I've used a tool from PDF Labs called PDFtk. The script I will be using also allows you to convert to CSV and XML. I’ll be merging 3 PDFs then converting pages 1, 3 and 5 into an Excel workbook. **Please check out my other Python posts here.In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to do a PDF merge online using Python and then how to extract specific data from PDF to Excel, CSV or XML in the same script. If you open a web browser to your local host, you should see an interface like below.įrom here, you’ll be able to upload a PDF file of your choice, and Excalibur will do the rest.įor more on working with PDF files, check out this post for how to read PDF text with Python. Next, run the below command to start the web server via Flask: The above command will initialize a meta database needed for the application. After you open the command line, just type the following: You can get started with Excalibur from the command line. If Camelot is already installed, you can just use pip to install Excalibur: If you’re looking for a web interface to use for extracting PDF tables, you can check out Excalibur, which is built on top of Camelot. Tables.to_excel("camelot_third_table.xlsx") If you want to export just a single table, you can do it just like in pandas since each individual table can be referred to as a data frame object. Tables.export("camelot_tables.xlsx", f = "excel") # export each table to a separate worksheet in an Excel file Tables.export("camelot_tables.csv", f = "csv", compress = True) # export all tables at once to CSV files in a single zip Tables.export("camelot_tables.csv", f = "csv") Choosing to export to excel will create a single workbook containing an individual worksheet for each table. You can create a zip file of these CSVs by adding the parameter compress = True. If you choose CSV, Camelot will create a separate CSV file for each table by default. Camelot supports (as of this writing) CSV, JSON, HTML, and SQLite. Like tabula-py, you can export all the scraped tables to a file. If we look at the raw PDF, we can see there’s not a table on that page, so it’s safe to ignore this empty data frame. One cool feature of Camelot is that you also get a “parsing report” for each table giving an accuracy metric, the page the table was found on, and the percentage of whitespace present in the table.įrom here we can see that the 0th-indexed identified table is essentially whitespace. To access any of the tables found by index, you can do this: ![]() Tables = camelot.read_pdf(file, pages = "1-end") Once installed, we can use Camelot similarly to tabula-py to scrape PDF tables. Camelot can be installed like so:Ĭamelot does have some additional dependencies, including GhostScript, which are listed here. nvert_into_by_batch("/path/to/files", output_format = "json", pages = "all")Ĭamelot is another possibility for scraping tables from PDFs. We can perform the same operation, except drop the files out to JSON instead, like below. nvert_into_by_batch("/path/to/files", output_format = "csv", pages = "all") Tabula-py can also scrape all of the PDFs in a directory in just one line of code, and drop the tables from each into CSV files. nvert_into(file, "iris_all.csv", all = True) ![]() # output all the tables in the PDF to a CSV # output just the first table in the PDF to a CSV If we add the parameter all = True, we can write all of the PDF’s tables to the CSV. The first line below will find the first table in the PDF and output it to a CSV. You can also use tabula-py to convert a PDF file directly into a CSV. To search for all the tables in a file you have to specify the parameters page = “all” and multiple_tables = True. The result stored into tables is a list of data frames which correspond to all the tables found in the PDF file. Tables = tabula.read_pdf(file, pages = "all", multiple_tables = True) Below we use it scrape all the tables from a paper on classification regarding the Iris dataset ( available here). Once installed, tabula-py is straightforward to use. ![]() If you have issues with installation, check this. Tabula-py is a very nice package that allows you to both scrape PDFs, as well as convert PDFs directly into CSV files. Note, this options will only work for PDFs that are typed – not scanned-in images. To learn more about scraping tables and other data from PDFs with R, click here. This post will go through a few ways of scraping tables from PDFs with Python.
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