Fetching tables from PDF files is no more a difficult task, you can do this using a single line in python.

What you will learn

1. Installing a tabula-py library.
2. Importing library.
3. Reading a PDF file.
4. Reading a table on a particular page of a PDF file.
5. Reading multiple tables on the same page of a PDF file.
6. Converting PDF files directly to a CSV file.

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Tabula

Tabula is one of the useful packages which not only allows you to scrape tables from PDF files but also convert a PDF file directly into a CSV file.

So let’s get started…

1. Install tabula-py library

pip install tabula-py

2. Importing tabula library

import tabula

3. Reading a PDF file

lets scrap this PDF data into pandas Data Frame.

image by Satya Ganesh

file = "data1.pdf"

table = tabula.read_pdf(file,pages=1)
table[0]

Take a look at the output of above code snippet executed in Google Colabs

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