[BasHamer]

If this can get me tables out of pdf's generated by crystal reports it would be a godsend for testing. This has been a nightmare to try and solve, the best option so far has been adobe cloud but they don't offer an API for that. I'm excited to try it out.

[mjt58]

Have you tried e.g. https://tabula.technology, https://pdftables.com, https://pypi.org/project/Camelot/?

[counciltime]

I have a friend who has also developed a number of applications that use OCR specifically for PDF which uses Tesseract. The Report Miner application does a nice job of locating and extracting PDF tables.

https://www.opait.com/tesseractstudio/

https://www.opait.com/Pdfreportminer/

[BasHamer]

https://pdftables.com failed the test file, pretty good but inconsistent interpretation across rows, sometimes it split the cell, sometimes it did not. Tabula failed to detect multi-line rows, after manually changing the table it did do better than pdftables.com on splitting cells. Both failed the non-printable whitespace characters that created garbled outputs in the excel. The other one would take some time to rig up.

[cdolan]

Rather than the Camelot link you provided, I think you meant Excalibur? https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur

[RandomBookmarks]

How about https://ocr.space/tablerecognition

It returns table data line by line.

[BasHamer]

handled the non-printed whitespace but butchered the multi- line table headers, so re-building the headers is rough as it is line by line and you need to know what words go together and you have lost the structure.