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. Today we discovered a great open source tool called Tabula that allows you to extract that data into a CSV spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
- Tabula’s main page: http://tabula.technology/
- The source code for tabula lives at: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
