Cutting off first character of last column about tabula-py HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for reporting. I saw similar stuff when the vertical line was too close to the character.

One thing I come up with is to use the columns option. Can you try it? See details in: https://tabula-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tabula.html#tabula.io.read_pdf
Without having the PDF, this is what I can suggest.

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hi @chezou,
Thanks for the recommendation! I added "columns=[10.1, 20.2, 30.3]" to the code and the column is no long cut off 👍 Am I

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Ugh, pressed the wrong button sorry @chezou. My follow-up question is if my syntax is correct. Using "columns=[10.1, 20.2, 30.3]" worked, but for future PDFs, I want to fully understand how to use the option. I know it's supposed to be: X coordinates of column boundaries. Can you please explain or suggest a better explanation from the documentation? Thanks!

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The description comes from tabula-java's one. I'm not sure what your point is.
https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java#commandline-usage-examples

Example code can be found in this article by @tdpetrou https://www.dunderdata.com/blog/read-trapped-tables-within-pdfs-as-pandas-dataframes

If you think you want to set the same columns option between different PDFs, that is not possible. You need to set the columns option per table.

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Hi,
Thanks again for the documentation and the article. This clears up a lot for me. Thanks again! :)

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