Extract Tables from PDF using Python

Extracts tabular data from PDF using pdfplumber (Python). No Java required - pure Python solution.

Usage

extract_tables_from_pdf_py(file_path, pages = NULL, envname = NULL)

Arguments

file_path

Character string path to PDF file

pages

Integer vector of page numbers to process (NULL = all pages)

envname

Character string, name of Python virtual environment (default: "textanalysisr-env")

Value

Data frame with extracted table data Returns NULL if no tables found or extraction fails

Details

Uses pdfplumber Python library through reticulate. Works with complex table layouts without Java dependency.

Examples

if (interactive()) {
setup_python_env()

pdf_path <- "path/to/table_document.pdf"
table_data <- extract_tables_from_pdf_py(pdf_path)
head(table_data)
}