The command line application is an example of usage of the Java library.
The library is based on pdfbox library and works by looking for the layout of each selected pdf page, and looking for table structure patterns.
After calling the library (passing the pdf filename, and the page range), the result is a List<PdfTextElement>.
PdfTextElement is an interface that has two implementations.
* A basic text (outside the tables)
* And PdfTextTabulaElement, for table structures.
That implementation allows reading table dimensions and the text of each cell of the table.
It is only a beta version.
If it does not work with the tables of your Pdf, you can write a ticket
You will find more about it at this web site:
https://www.frojasg1.com:8443/downloads_web/web/html/extractorDeTablasDePdfs.html?origin=sourceforge
Features
- pdf table extraction
- pdf layout extraction
- pdfbox