Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV

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  • Camelot

    A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs

    • I've had success using camelot-py (https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io) to extract tabular data from PDFs (for images, I use imagemagick to convert those to PDF). If your table has borders the default method (lattice) works quite well. For non-bordered table there is the option to use 'stream' option but usually requires bit more preprocessing to get usable results.

  • image2csv

    Convert tables stored as images to an usable .csv file

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  • image-table-ocr

    Turn images of tables into CSV data. Detect tables from images and run OCR on the cells.

    • https://github.com/eihli/image-table-ocr seems to automatically find tables within larger images, IDK if it works without borders though.

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