![]() Text fields are extracted from pdf codepoints, if there are any. It only prints anything but text and images (-dFILTERTEXT -dFILTERIMAGE params of GhostScript, which lefts lines, curves, etc.) to analyze table structure. It prints PDF to an image file with GhostScript, then analyses the image. There are usually no actual tables in PDFs, only characters with coordinates, and some fancy lines. The latter is useful in case of whitespace-separated fixed-width tables. Given a filename, it generates CSV files for the tables detected or, with -t option, just page text. ![]() t, -text extract full page text instead of tables phrases keep phrases unsplit, could fix some merged cells i, -images use pictures in pdf (usually a bad idea) p, -pages page numbers, comma-separated, no spaces It's a simple wrapper: iguvium filename.pdf Gem installation adds a command-line utility to the system. Get first table from the page 8 pages = Iguvium.read('filename.pdf') In this case, run xcode-select -install beforehand, and after that install Iguvium as admin: sudo gem install iguvium Usage Get all the tables in 2D text array format pages = Iguvium.read('filename.pdf') #=> If you're not a developer and have a Mac, you maybe have default Ruby installation and no development tools installed. ![]() Or install it yourself as: $ gem install iguvium Windows: download installer from the official download page.Īdd this line to your application's Gemfile: Make sure you have Ghostscript installed. Full page extraction takes up to 1 second on modern CPUs and up to 2 seconds on the older ones.
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