pdftablr 0.1.0

Python3 implementation of Kyle Cronan's pdftable module, with unit tests

This is a Python 3 module and command line utility that analyzes XML output from the
program `pdftohtml` in order to extract tables from PDF files and output the data as CSV.

For example:

pdftohtml -xml -stdout file.pdf | pdftable -f file%d.csv

See also `pdftable -h` and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftable

Original author: (c) 2009 Kyle Cronan <[e-mail]>

This Python 3 implementation: (c) 2017 Phil Gooch

As per Kyle's code, this version is licensed under GPLv3. See LICENSE file.

# Installation

Install `pdftohtml` via `poppler-utils` (Linux) or `poppler` (Mac OSX)

Then install the module

python setup.py install

or
pip install pdftablr

## Command line usage

pdftohtml -xml -stdout file.pdf | pdftable -f file%d.csv

## Module usage

from pdftablr.table_extractor import Extractor

# XML file created from pdftohtml
input_path = '/path/to/file.xml'

# Output CSV file
output_path = '/path/to/output.csv'

with open(output_path, 'w') as output_file:
table_extractor = Extractor(output_file=output_file)

with open(input_path) as f:
table_extractor.read_file(f)

tables = table_extractor.extract()
for table in tables:
table.output(writer=None)