Use Case

Extract tabular data from unstructured PDF document into CSV format.

Resources

Download the original PDF document

Use Case

Extract tabular data from unstructured PDF document into CSV format.

Resources

Download the original PDF document

PDFix Extract Data from PDF - Getting Started

Integration

The SDK provides two options for integrating into your project using a Command Line Utility or programatically.

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> Command Line

PDFix provides simple and fast automated PDF processing using a command line. PDFix Command Line Utility is the easiest way to integrate the SDK functionality into your solution available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Learn more about the Command Line Utility.

$ cd /pdfix_mac/bin
$ ./pdfix_app support@pdfix.net 3bE31NaixzFE58ir -pdf2table /Users/admin/Documents/input.pdf output_csv

Output:

PDF to TABLE
2 tables found
Success

This command extracts tables detected in the PDF into CSV files. Output should point to the folder where separate CSV files will be saved.

These code samples show how to extract tables from a PDF document and save them to CSV output. Code integration into your project allows you to take full control of the PDF data processing:

Result

Found tables extracted to separate CSV files as displayed below:

RAW CSV data:

“Year”,”England/”,”Holland/”,”Italy”,”Spain”,
,”Great Britain”,”The Netherlands”,,,
“1086”,”754″,,,,
“1270”,”759″,,,”957″,
“1300”,”755″,,”1,482″,”957″,
“1348”,”777″,”876″,”1,376″,”1,030″,
“1400”,”1,090″,”1,245″,”1,601″,”885″,
“1450”,”1,055″,”1,432″,”1,668″,”889″,
“1500”,”1,114″,”1,483″,”1,403″,”889″,
“1570”,”1,143″,”1,783″,”1,337″,”990″,
“1600”,”1,123″,”2,372″,”1,244″,”944″,
“1650”,”1,100″,”2,171″,”1,271″,”820″,
“1700”,”1,630″,”2,403″,”1,350″,”880″,
,”1,563″,,,,
“1750”,”1,710″,”2,440″,”1,403″,”910″,
“1800”,”2,080″,”2,617″,”1,244″,”962″,
,,”1,752″,,,
“1820”,”2,133″,”1,953″,”1,376″,”1,087″,
“1850”,”2,997″,”2,397″,”1,350″,”1,144″,

Data Imported to Excel:

Customizing the output

PDFix SDK allows customization of the output by using configuration files that affect table detection process and the output structure. To learn more about the configuration files please follow the Documentation. When using the SDK programatically there are no limits to fit the output your needs.

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