Extract Tables from PDFs & Images - Convert PDF to Excel using Camelot in Python

In this Python Tutorial, We'll learn about Camelot - A python library that makes it easier to extract Tables from PDFs and Images. You can also Convert the PDF Table into CSV, Excel, JSON, Pandas Dataframe and HTML.
Converting PDF into Excel or Extracting Tables from PDF Pages is completely free using open source Camelot library.

[winningtech]

i don't know how to thank you. I've been googling for 3 days now looking for this solution. I was stuck with just using cv2 to load the image and pytesseract to read the text. but it wasn't in a table format. Thanks a lot. 🥰🥰😘😘😍😍

[vanshikasaini]

Hey! I'm getting this error in camelot when I run the code. Can someone help 😓😓
DeprecationError: PdfFileReader is deprecated and was removed in PyPDF2 3.0.0. Use PdfReader instead.

[meetbardoliya]

Libraries like Camelot only works for the digital PDFs. Is there any solution to extract tables from scanned PDFs (Where data is usually stored in image format)?

[galan]

How does it work with imgs? (instead with pdf files)

[megazero]

t tried to convert the PNG to PDF and try, but it's show this error: "page-1 is image-based, camelot only works on text-based pages. [stream.py:448]". any other ways?

[dilkashgazala]

Hi can you please tell me is it possible to extract table of similar structures in different pdfs to an excel sheet using python

[ortalboher]

Is there camelot attribute to extract all pdf files in one directory like tabula.convert_into_by_batch("/Users/xxx/test/", output_format='csv', pages='all')?

[sathyanyan]

I couldn't install ghostscript in windows. Please help me how to resolve this issue

[smritisingh]

I tried to extract a table from pdf but my tables has data was editable kind of form, I was able to extract table headers but not table data.what is the solution for this?

[nitishagrawal]

how can you compare the table data extracted from pdf and word files in python?

[patrickonodje]

Thanks for the video. Really helpful. I would also like to know if Camelot can be used to extract tables from images and save as pd data frame. If not, is there a reliable method I can use?

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[mannu]

UserWarning: page-2 is image-based, camelot only works on text-based pages. [stream.py:449] i am getting this error can you please help me? with same file which you have explained even with same code which u explained.

[sharfarozkhan]

brother i cant extract data from pdf because camelot extract only text based table, mine pdf is scanned based, ,please i need solution ...Thank you

[madhusmitaray]

Hi, how to extract a single data from a table from multiple pdfs? Any suggestion ?

[walkwithus]

if we have mutli tables how to extract, we have problems in header !!

[chelvirodge]

Can we extract the tables from the scanned images (pdf) into excel? In the video you have used the normal pdf but is there a solution for the scanned table pdf into excel? Thanks!

[atulsingh]

hey camelot does not works on image-based

[taravjain]

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'camelot'
then I tried to install camelot as below:-
pip install camelot-py[cv]
pip install camelot-py[base]
pip install camelot-py[all]
pip install camelot

they are all running till infinity !!

please suggest.

[abdulbasitkasim]

A little miss leading it doesn’t work for png