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.. Camelot documentation master file, created by
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sphinx-quickstart on Tue Jul 19 13:44:18 2016.
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You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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contain the root `toctree` directive.
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Camelot: PDF Table Parsing for Humans
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=====================================
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Release v\ |version|. (:ref:`Installation <install>`)
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-lightgrey.svg
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:target: https://pypi.org/project/camelot-py/
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python-2.7-blue.svg
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:target: https://pypi.org/project/camelot-py/
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**Camelot** is a Python library which makes it easy for *anyone* to extract tables from PDF files!
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.. note:: Camelot only works with:
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- Python 2, with **Python 3** support `on the way`_.
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- Text-based PDFs and not scanned documents. If you can click-and-drag to select text in your table in a PDF viewer, then your PDF is text-based. Support for image-based PDFs using **OCR** is `planned`_.
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.. _on the way: https://github.com/socialcopsdev/camelot/issues/81
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.. _planned: https://github.com/socialcopsdev/camelot/issues/101
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**Here's how you can extract tables from PDF files.** Check out the PDF used in this example, `here`_.
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.. _here: _static/pdf/foo.pdf
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>>> import camelot
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>>> tables = camelot.read_pdf('foo.pdf', mesh=True)
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>>> tables
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<TableList tables=1>
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>>> tables.export('foo.csv', f='csv', compress=True) # json, excel, html
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>>> tables[0]
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<Table shape=(7, 7)>
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>>> tables[0].parsing_report
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{
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'accuracy': 99.02,
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'whitespace': 12.24,
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'order': 1,
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'page': 1
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}
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>>> tables[0].to_csv('foo.csv') # to_json, to_excel, to_html
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>>> tables[0].df # get a pandas DataFrame!
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.. csv-table::
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:file: _static/csv/foo.csv
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There's a :ref:`command-line interface <cli>` too!
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Why Camelot?
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------------
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- **You are in control**: Unlike other libraries and tools which either give a nice output or fail miserably (with no in-between), Camelot gives you the power to tweak table extraction. (Since everything in the real world, including PDF table extraction, is fuzzy.)
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- **Metrics**: *Bad* tables can be discarded based on metrics like accuracy and whitespace, without ever having to manually look at each table.
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- Each table is a **pandas DataFrame**, which enables seamless integration into data analysis workflows.
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- **Export** to multiple formats, including json, excel and html.
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- Simple and Elegant API, written in **Python**!
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The User Guide
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This part of the documentation, begins with some background information about why Camelot was created, takes a small dip into the implementation details and then focuses on step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of Camelot.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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user/intro
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user/install
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user/how-it-works
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user/quickstart
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user/advanced
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user/cli
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The API Documentation / Guide
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-----------------------------
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If you are looking for information on a specific function, class, or method,
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this part of the documentation is for you.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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api
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The Contributor Guide
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---------------------
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If you want to contribute to the project, this part of the documentation is for
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you.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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dev/contributing |