Ask HN: What's a good library/command line tool to extract tables from PDFs?

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  • excalibur

    A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs (by camelot-dev)

    • have not tried it, but this has been in my bookmarks a while: https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur

  • tabulapdf

    Bindings for Tabula PDF Table Extractor Library

    • there is also this option: https://docs.ropensci.org/tabulizer/

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