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2 182 0.0 C++

C language library for creating bindings for the Qt QML language
pdffigures2

1 322 0.0 Scala

Given a scholarly PDF, extract figures, tables, captions, and section titles.

Check this project from AllenAI called PdfFigures: they also extract tables
https://github.com/allenai/pdffigures2
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