Have you ever wanted to get a data table in from a PDF file into any spreadsheet editor like Libreoffice Calc or Excel so you could do some further analysis or charting?

Software that can convert a PDF to Spreadsheet compatible format are either paid or hard to find. Nonetheless, there are some websites which have tools to do this for you (but if you have confidential information you'd wouldn't want to upload it to a 3rd party site, would you?).

Tighten your seat belts while I take you on a tour of showing you three different software tools to do this job for you. And no, I am not going to talk about Microsoft Word ( which I do not understand why some people claim it to be free IF you have already PURCHASED Microsoft Office ... Oh Please It Just Knocks The Sense Out Of Me !!!)

You don't need to go online to use any tools, so see how this could be done quickly and easily :-) . The best part about all these soft wares is that they are free as in F R E E !!!

There is a surprise for looking to extract table from image to extract. Check it out.

The spreadsheet editor that I would be using for the purposes of this video is the open source LibreOffice Calc.

The software tools I demonstrate here span computing systems ranging from Windows, Mac and Linux. They are offline so your confidential data remains on your system. Even the web server that Tabula and Excalibur initiate are on your local machine localhost 127.0.0.1

Software Tools Explained

1. Tabula - Windows, Mac and Linux
2. ByteScout PDF MultiTool - Windows
3. Okular - Windows and Linux

Notable Mention that I missed in this video

4. Excalibur - Very similar in nature and functionality to Tabula (Written in Python)

The demonstration and commentary in the video is purely for instructional or educational value and is strictly tied to the action shown.

Tabula https://tabula.technology/

ByteScout PDF MultiTool https://bytescout.com/products/pdfmultitool/index.html

Okular https://okular.kde.org/download.php

Excalibur https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur

7-zip Download https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

My Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/HikmatEUstad?sub_confirmation=1

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Timestamps

0:00 Demonstration of Table Extraction From Pdf To Spreadsheet Editor 1:23 1st Tool Tabula - Download 3:25 Tabula Installation 6:36 Tabula Demo of Table Extraction From Pdf To Spreadsheet Editor 11:00 2nd Tool ByteScout PDF MultiTool - Download 12:18 ByteScout PDF MultiTool Installation 14:12 ByteScout PDF MultiTool Demonstration 18:15 Surprise Functionality Of ByteScout PDF MultiTool - Extract Table Fro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIYAlNG6Ik