outside_bbox is working properly?

[jicastillow]

Hello,

I'm trying to use Page.outside_bbox to get the original PDF without the tables detected. I do something like this:

import pdfplumber
import pdfplumber.table

pdf = pdfplumber.open("contracts/Palasiet.pdf")
page_number = 0
page = pdf.pages[page_number]
im = page.to_image(resolution=75)
tables = page.find_tables()
im.draw_rects(map(lambda table: table.bbox, tables))

Showing the detected table in the PDF:

However then I try to use Page.outside_bbox to exclude the objects inside the table BBox,

page.outside_bbox(tables[0].bbox).to_image()

but none is excluded, aparently:

Can you please help me to know if I'm doing something wrong?

The idea is to get the same document but without the table on it.

[jsvine]

Hi @jicastillow, you're not doing anything wrong at all. The method .outside_bbox(...) returns a DerivedPage object where the elements inside of that bbox are removed from pdfplumber's internal view. But because it does not alter the page's overall (outer) bounding box does not, it does not affect the output of .to_image(...).

For your goal, the first block of code you have should work, with one tweak:

im.draw_rects(map(lambda table: table.bbox, tables), fill="white")

... replacing "white" with whatever color name or RGB triplet you prefer. You can also change the stroke via stroke=....

[jicastillow]

Hi @jsvine, thanks for your quick response, worked perfectly!
Keep up the good work, very useful library.