Bug 324973

Summary:	Allow extract of PDF data tables
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Alvaro Soliverez 2013-09-16 20:25:58 UTC

It would be nice to have a feature to export data tables of PDF files into a CSV file or similar.
It is very common to have data available in PDF format, which is really to extract with the copy/paste option.
Having an option to extract significant data into a CSV file would allow to handle the task easily.

Here's a tool that does a similar job (though not easy to install, plus it's Java, etc)  https://github.com/jazzido/tabula

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2013-09-21 15:41:20 UTC

What's the problem with the table selection tool we have?

Comment 2 Alvaro Soliverez 2013-09-23 18:21:14 UTC

Now that you mention it, I found it and tested it. The only flaw I can find is that is not visible enough (eg. it didn't slap me on the face when I thought of it).

I was expecting some raw import functionality, the table selection tool is much better than that.