In this tutorial, we will introduce some steps to extract tables from a pdf file using python tabula-py libary.

1.Install tabula-py libary

pip install tabula-py

2.Import library

from tabula import read_pdf

3.Extract all tables in a pdf file

pdf_file="test.pdf"
#list all tables
tables = read_pdf(pdf_file, pages='all')

4.Iterate all tables and convert them to csv files

for table in tables:
    #remove Nan columns
    table = table.dropna(axis="columns")

    if not table.empty:
        print(f"Table {table_number}")
        print(table)

        #convert the table dataframe into csv file
        table.to_csv(f'table{table_number}.csv')

        table_number += 1

Run this code, you will see some csv files: