Tabula is a Java-based program to extract data within tables in PDF files. We will download the Tabula software and put it to work on the tricky tables in our page 149 file.
Tabula is available to be downloaded from its website at http://tabula.technology/. The site includes some simple download instructions.
Launch Tabula from inside the downloaded .zip
archive. On the Mac, the Tabula application file is called simply Tabula.app
. You can copy this to your Applications
folder if you like.
When Tabula starts, it launches a tab or window within your default web browser at the address http://127.0.0.1:8080/
. The initial action portion of the screen looks like this:
The warning that auto-detecting tables takes a long time is true. For...