Outputting Format w/ Multi Page PDF about tabula-py HOT 10 CLOSED

OK. I fixed the doc d787ade

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Put parameter - pages="all" or specific pages ="1-2,3"

Take a look example in repository.

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Nice, convert_into('./examples/data.pdf', 'test.csv', output_format='csv', pages="all") works. Have you used the format part of the options at all?

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Yeah, i've tried all 3 formats and works fine.
It might be super useful lib :)

convert_into("\data\data2.pdf", "\data\data2.tsv", pages="1-2", output_format="tsv")
convert_into("\data\data2.pdf", "\data\data2.csv", pages="1-2", output_format="csv")
convert_into("\data\data2.pdf", "\data\data2.json", pages="1-2", output_format="json")

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Thank you @GGPay for your supporting. It seems to be solved.

@adack123 If you still have other problems, please file another issue.

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@GGPay Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't really referring to the output_format but rather the format part of the options, unless they are one and the same.

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The docs say under options

format (str, optional):
Format for output file or extracted object. (CSV, TSV, JSON)

Does this refer to output_format? I want to do something like, read_pdf('foo.pdf', format='csv') and have the extracted object come back as CSV

Doing something like, read_pdf('foo.pdf', output_format='csv') doesn't get me to the desired output.

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Ah, I understand. The doc is old.

I assume you to use output_format rather than format directly.
https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py/blob/master/tabula/wrapper.py#L104-L115

You can do like:

convert_into('input.pdf', 'output.csv', output_format='csv')

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@chezou

Gotcha, format -> output_format

What about in the read_pdf method? I see that you can return as JSON here, https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py/blob/master/tabula/wrapper.py#L48

What about CSV, etc?

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I don't imagine the use case to convert into CSV. Converting CSV has a lot of options for that, so I don't want to think it is a tabula-py's responsibility.

Why don't you convert from data frame into csv using pandas.DataFrame.to_csv()?
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.to_csv.html

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Yeah, I was sorting of thinking that was out of the scope of what tabula-py is used for but was curious. Anyways, thanks for the clarification on format.

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