Bug 324973 - Allow extract of PDF data tables
Summary: Allow extract of PDF data tables
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2013-09-16 20:25 UTC by Alvaro Soliverez
Modified: 2013-09-23 18:21 UTC (History)
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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.