pdf_table_to_csv

capture tables in a pdf and output a csv.

This project uses

tesseract-ocr tabula pdftools ghostscript

What does it do

Takes a file in files folder and triese process.sh script takes an s3 URL as input, which points to a pdf. Image only pdfs are converted to images, run through tesseract OCR and then converted back into a pdf with an image and a text layer. Pdfs with a text layer are run through tabula-java which guesses where tables are, and converts them to a csv file.

How to use pdf_table_to_csv

###Build the container

docker build . --tag pdf_table_to_csv

###To Run

Put any files you want to process in a ./files folder.

mkdir -p ./files 
# Copy PDF files to the files folder
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}/files:/files -u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) valveless/pdf_table_to_csv example.pdf