Tabula Pdf Table Extractor

---
name: "Tabula PDF Table Extractor"
slug: "tabula-pdf-table-extractor"
description: "Extracts structured tables from PDF documents using Tabula-java with lattice and stream detection modes. Outputs to CSV, JSON, or pandas DataFrames with automatic column type inference via python-tabula."
github_stars: 2023
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java"
author: "Tabula"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "MCP"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "tabulapdf/tabula-java"
  github_stars: 2023
---

# Tabula PDF Table Extractor

Extracts structured tables from PDF documents using Tabula-java with lattice and stream detection modes. Outputs to CSV, JSON, or pandas DataFrames with automatic column type inference via python-tabula.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- the [Ruby](http://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-extractor), [Python](https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py), [R](https://github.com/leeper/tabulizer), and [Node.js](https://github.com/ezodude/tabula-js) bindings

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ## Commandline Usage Examples
- [-g] [-h] [-i] [-l] [-n] [-o <OUTFILE>] [-p <PAGES>] [-r] [-s
- <PASSWORD>] [-t] [-u] [-v]

- Source: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/tabula-pdf-table-extractor/)