[School-of-data] 'Tabula helps you liberate data tables trapped inside evil PDFs'

Sat Apr 6 00:02:53 UTC 2013

I haven't tried it yet, but it doesn't look like the process for self-hosting on a local OSX or Linux box is too onerous: https://github.com/jazzido/tabula/blob/master/README.md#manual-installation-os-x-or-linux

Eldan Goldenberg
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On Apr 5, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Stian Håklev wrote:

> Somebody needs to host an unrestricted version of this - it's too high a barrier for someone to fire up an EC2, just to try to extract some data from a PDF...
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> This might be useful/interesting to some of you!
> 
> http://tabula.nerdpower.org/
> http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/
> 
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