tabula ☆

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Description:
Tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files

Type: Cask | Latest Version: 1.2.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | @tabula_app | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: pdf data-extraction productivity developer-tools csv

Install: brew install --cask tabula

About:
Tabula is a specialized tool designed to extract tabular data from PDF documents with high accuracy. It provides a graphical interface for users to select and export tables directly to CSV or JSON formats. This solves the common problem of retrieving structured data from otherwise uneditable PDF files.

Key Features:

Interactive table selection interface
High-accuracy data extraction
Export to CSV and JSON formats
Command-line interface (tabula-java) for scripting
Open-source and community-driven

Use Cases:

Extracting financial data from annual reports
Converting scientific papers with data tables to spreadsheets
Processing government statistics published as PDFs

Alternatives:

pdfplumber – Python library for programmatic PDF extraction, requires coding
camelot – Command-line tool focused on lattice-based table extraction
Adobe Acrobat Pro – Commercial PDF suite with export features, expensive

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jul 10, 2024 12:58pm	1.2.1	0	VERSION_BUMP	985bb163