tablaam

Researchers working with data from third parties often can only obtain this data in PDF format. Tablaam will be a set of tools and a library for extracting tabular data from PDF documents. This project is in incubation. |Programming language: | Java | |:---------------------|:-----| |Licensing: | Apache 2.0 | |Build environment: | Maven | |Supported project-development IDE: | Eclipse | |Repository: | Git | Two tools are envisioned: an IDE for developing, debugging, and executing mappings from PDF documents to data output files. a PDF browser/explorer to assist in developing said mappings - providing easy access to attributes of fragments of interest like font, page coordinates, etc. It is unclear whether these will be thick or thin-client. Some people are afraid to download a thick client, for fear of malware. A thin client has potential disadvantages too, such as speed, server a