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jazzidoon Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV

the little known csvfix (https://bitbucket.org/neilb/csvfix) is pretty good too.

jazzidoon Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs

PDFBox 1.8 less-than-great rendering engine forced us to include a separate library for that purpose only.

Moving to PDFBox 2.0 is also on our roadmap. But the text extraction API in 2.0 has changed a lot too, so porting our engine would require quite a bit of effort.

Friendly reminder: we're an MIT-licensed open source project, and we're always open to contributions!

jazzidoon Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs

Hi. Can you share the PDF with us on our issue tracker? (https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula/issues) We'd be happy to take a look at it

jazzidoon Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs

Hi. Tabula author here.

We use JPedal for rendering pages as images. For parsing, we use Apache PDFBox. In the near future, we plan to render the PDFs client side with Mozilla's PDF.js