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		hermitcrab 79 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem I am hoping at some point to be able to extract tabular data from PDFs for my data wrangling software. If anyone knows of a library that can extract tables from PDFs, can be inegrated into a C++ app and is free or less than a few hundred $, please let me know!

______ 79 days ago [–]

pdfplumber is great for table extraction but it is python

hermitcrab 78 days ago | [–]

Thanks, but I prefer to keep everything C++ for simplicity and speed.

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