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I have a pdf file containing text, images and tables.I want to extract just the tables from that pdf file using either Python or R.

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    [Okay](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask). – BruceWayne Jan 28 '18 at 06:38
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    Asking auntie [Google](https://www.google.de/search?q=R+extract+pdf+data&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=kn1tWvTjF46g4gTm06q4Bw) helps – vaettchen Jan 28 '18 at 07:37

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If you are considering using R I would recommend using the tabulizer package.
it is available here and is very easy to use. to install it you would have to use the following command:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/tabulizer")

And using one of their examples:

library("tabulizer")
f <- system.file("examples", "data.pdf", package = "tabulizer")
# When f is your selected pdf file.
out1 <- extract_tables(f)
# Or even better, say what page the tables are in.
out2 <- extract_tables(f, pages = 1, guess = FALSE, method = "data.frame")
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You'll probably find PyPI useful - you can search for specific things on there like 'PDF' and it will give you a list of modules relating to PDF's (here). You'll probably want PDF 1.0 judging from it's weight on PyPI. This should help you get started!

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