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Extracts data from PDF files and saves it to Excel files.

Project description

📄 pdfsp


pdfsp is a Python package that extracts tables from PDF files and saves them to Excel. It also provides a simple Streamlit app for interactive viewing of the extracted data.


🚀 Features

  • Extracts tabular data from PDFs using pdfplumber
  • Converts tables into pandas DataFrames
  • Saves output as .xlsx Excel files using openpyxl
  • Ensures column names are unique to prevent issues
  • Visualizes DataFrames with streamlit

📦 Installation

Make sure you're using Python 3.10 or newer, then install with:

pip install pdfsp -U

python script

# pdf.py
from pdfsp import extract_tables, Options

# Define extraction options
source_folder = "."
output_folder = "output"
combine_tables = True

options = Options(
    source_folder=source_folder,
    output_folder=output_folder,
    combine=combine_tables
)

# Run the table extraction
extract_tables(options)

From console / Terminal / Command Line

# Extract all tables from all PDF files in the current folder and save them to the current folder
pdfsp . .

# Extract and COMBINE large tables (spanning multiple pages) into single files, saved to the current folder
pdfsp . . --combine

# Extract and COMBINE tables, skipping the first row of each table (e.g., header rows)
pdfsp . . --combine --skiprows=1

# Extract all tables from PDF files in 'someFolder' and save them to 'SomeOutFolder'
pdfsp someFolder SomeOutFolder

# Extract all tables from 'some.pdf' and save them to the current folder
pdfsp some.pdf .

# Extract all tables from 'some.pdf' and save them to 'toThisFolder'
pdfsp some.pdf toThisFolder
=== 📊 Extraction Summary Report ===
✅ Successful Files: 3
   - pdfs/report1.pdf → 🗂️ 5 tables extracted
   - pdfs/summary2.pdf → 🗂️ 3 tables extracted
   - pdfs/report2.pdf → 🗂️ 7 tables extracted

❌ Failed Files: 1
   - pdfs/corrupted.pdf

⚠️ Some files failed to process. See details above.

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