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Life & fun · October 17, 2015

Tabula

scrape data from a PDF

Tabula launched on October 17, 2015 with 12 votes, #1,977 of 4,175 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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What it does

Tabula is a free tool for extracting data from PDF files into CSV and Excel files.

Donate: Help support this project by backing us on OpenCollective . Tabula 1.2.1 fixes several bugs in the user interface and processing backend. (You can read about all the changes in the release notes .) Special thanks to our OpenCollective backers for supporting our work on Tabula; if you find Tabula useful in your work, please consider a one-time or monthly donation . If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and…from tabula.technology

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