colibrie 1.1.3

Colibrie is a blazing fast tool to extract tables from PDFs

Colibrie

Colibrie is a blazing fast tool to extract tables from PDFs

Why Colibrie?

• :rocket: Efficient: Colibrie is faster by multiple order of magnitude than any actual existing solution
• :sparkles: Fidel visual: Colibrie can provide 1:1 HTML representation of any tables it'll find
• :books: Reliable: Colibri will find every valid tables without exception if the PDF is compatible with the core principle of Colibrie
• :memo: Output: Each table can be export into to multiple formats, which include :
  • Pandas Dataframe.
  • HTML.

Benchmark :

Some number to compare Camelot (a popular library to extract tables from PDF) and Colibrie

	Tables extracted
Times in second	camelot	colibrie
camelot	colibrie	valid	false positive	valid	false positive	pages count	pdf file
0.53	0.00545	1	0	1	0	1	small pdf
5.95	0.02100	4	0	4	0	11	medium pdf
105.00	0.21900	62	1	62	0	167	big pdf
182.00	0.69000	175	1	177	0	269	giant pdf

Installation

using source

pip install poetry

git clone https://github.com/abitoun-42/colibrie.git

cd colibrie

poetry install

using pip

pip install colibrie

Usage

PDF used in example : example.pdf

from colibrie.extract_tables import extract_table

tables = extract_table('example.pdf')

for table in tables:
   print(table.to_html())
   df = table.to_df()

Output :

Classifi cation des associations agréées de surveillance de la qualité de l’air				Classifi cation des bureaux d’études techniques, des cabinets d’ingénieurs-conseils et des sociétés de conseils
Catégorie	Échelon	Coeffi cient	Salaire minimal hiérarchique		Position	Coeffi cient	Salaire minimal hiérarchique
7	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	255 268 282 296 311 327 344 362 381 401 422 444	1 307,13 € 1 373,77 € 1 445,53 € 1 517,30 € 1 594,19 € 1 676,20 € 1 763,34 € 1 855,61 € 1 953,01 € 2 055,53 € 2 163,17 € 2 275,94 €	ETAM	1.1.	230	1 558,80 €
					1.2.	240	1 587,50 €
					1.3.	250	1 618,50 €
6	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	310 326 344 363 384 406 430 457 485 515 549 585	1 589,06 € 1 671,08 € 1 763,34 € 1 860,74 € 1 968,38 € 2 081,16 € 2 204,18 € 2 342,58 € 2 486,11 € 2 639,89 € 2 814,17 € 2 998,71 €		2.1.	275	1 683,75 €
					2.2.	310	1 786,70 €
					2.3.	355	1 922,60 €