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ur-whale on Feb 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tabula: Convert PDF Table to CSV

>Why do these packages insist on involving databases, web servers, etc.?

wholeheartedly agree, and ... give a try to:

    pdftotext -layout somePDF.pdf -

1024core on Feb 28, 2022 [–]

Thanks! That's what I've been using, but some tables give pdftotext problems :-(

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