Top 8 table-extraction Open-Source Projects

pdfplumber

29 5,668 8.2 Python

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

Project mention: Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

PyMuPDF

5 4,205 9.8 Python

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

Project mention: FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023 | dev.to | 2023-12-04

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table-transformer

9 1,869 6.1 Python

Table Transformer (TATR) is a deep learning model for extracting tables from unstructured documents (PDFs and images). This is also the official repository for the PubTables-1M dataset and GriTS evaluation metric.

Project mention: Data extraction from pdf | /r/LocalLLaMA | 2023-12-11

Saw this last time but never played with it https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer

img2table

1 387 7.8 Python

img2table is a table identification and extraction Python Library for PDF and images, based on OpenCV image processing
ExtractTable-py

1 241 0.0 Python

Python library to extract tabular data from images and scanned PDFs
docxtractr

1 170 0.0 R

:scissors: Extract Tables from Microsoft Word Documents with R
tabula-sharp

1 139 1.2 C#

Extract tables from PDF files (port of tabula-java)

Project mention: What is the best library for processing table data contained within a PDF? | /r/dotnet | 2023-06-23

This looks promising: https://github.com/BobLd/tabula-sharp

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parsee-pdf-reader

1 23 8.3 Python

Parsee's PDF reader, specialized on the extraction of tables with numeric values and the accurate extraction and preservation of text-paragraphs. Full support for scans and images.

Project mention: Parsee.ai – a framework to easily extract complex structured data with LLMs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-31

Yes, another LLM framework. This one is specialized on extracting structured data from various document types (mainly PDFs, images and HTML files).
Comes with a new (separate) PDF extraction library that is focused on the extraction of numeric tables (tables with numbers, so especially for the financial domain): https://github.com/parsee-ai/parsee-pdf-reader
Helps to easily set up a dataset to evaluate the performance of various LLMs on data extraction tasks, e.g. extracting revenue figures from financial reports: https://github.com/parsee-ai/parsee-datasets/tree/main/datas...

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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