Tabula 1.0.1

tabula-sharp

tabula-sharp is a library for extracting tables from PDF files — it is a port of tabula-java

👁 Windows
👁 Linux
👁 Mac OS

• Supports netstandard2.0 / 2.1, net462, net471, net6.0, net8.0 and net9.0
• No java bindings

NuGet packages available on the releases page and on www.nuget.org:

• Tabula
• Tabula.Json
• Tabula.Csv

Differences with tabula-java

• Uses PdfPig, and not PdfBox.
• Coordinate system starts from the bottom left point (going up) of the page, and not from the top left point (going down).
• The NurminenDetectionAlgorithm is replaced by SimpleNurminenDetectionAlgorithm, because it requieres an image management library.
• Table results might be different because of the way PdfPig builds Letters bounding box.

Usage

Stream mode - BasicExtractionAlgorithm

using (PdfDocument document = PdfDocument.Open("doc.pdf", new ParsingOptions() { ClipPaths = true }))
{
	PageArea page = ObjectExtractor.Extract(document, 1);
	
	// detect canditate table zones
	SimpleNurminenDetectionAlgorithm detector = new SimpleNurminenDetectionAlgorithm();
	var regions = detector.Detect(page);
	
	IExtractionAlgorithm ea = new BasicExtractionAlgorithm();
	IReadOnlyList<Table> tables = ea.Extract(page.GetArea(regions[0].BoundingBox)); // take first candidate area
	var table = tables[0];
	var rows = table.Rows;
}

Lattice mode - SpreadsheetExtractionAlgorithm

using (PdfDocument document = PdfDocument.Open("doc.pdf", new ParsingOptions() { ClipPaths = true }))
{
	PageArea page = ObjectExtractor.Extract(document, 1);

	IExtractionAlgorithm ea = new SpreadsheetExtractionAlgorithm();
	IReadOnlyList<Table> tables = ea.Extract(page);
	var table = tables[0];
	var rows = table.Rows;
}

Results

Stream mode - BasicExtractionAlgorithm

Lattice mode - SpreadsheetExtractionAlgorithm