Extract Tables from PDFs & Images - Convert PDF to Excel using Camelot in Python

May 9, 2023

In this Python Tutorial, We’ll learn about Camelot – A python library that makes it easier to extract Tables from PDFs and Images. You can also Convert the PDF Table into CSV, Excel, JSON, Pandas Dataframe and HTML.
Converting PDF into Excel or Extracting Tables from PDF Pages is completely free using open source Camelot library.

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23 thoughts on “Extract Tables from PDFs & Images – Convert PDF to Excel using Camelot in Python”

how to do image to excel?

No Images table extract !

Very Thankfull for this video
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Thanks for the video. Really helpful. I would also like to know if Camelot can be used to extract tables from images and save as pd data frame. If not, is there a reliable method I can use?

if we have mutli tables how to extract, we have problems in header !!

Hi can you please tell me is it possible to extract table of similar structures in different pdfs to an excel sheet using python

Hi, how to extract a single data from a table from multiple pdfs? Any suggestion ?

Is there camelot attribute to extract all pdf files in one directory like tabula.convert_into_by_batch("/Users/xxx/test/", output_format='csv', pages='all')?

A little miss leading it doesn’t work for png

I tried to extract a table from pdf but my tables has data was editable kind of form, I was able to extract table headers but not table data.what is the solution for this?

Can we extract the tables from the scanned images (pdf) into excel? In the video you have used the normal pdf but is there a solution for the scanned table pdf into excel? Thanks!

brother i cant extract data from pdf because camelot extract only text based table,mine pdf is scanned based ,,please i need solution …Thank you

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'camelot'
then I tried to install camelot as below:-
pip install camelot-py[cv]
pip install camelot-py[base]
pip install camelot-py[all]
pip install camelot

they are all running till infinity !!

please suggest.

Excellent! you made my day!

I'm getting this error with pip for use Camelot:
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'camelot' has no attribute 'read_pdf' (most likely due to a circular import)

Someone know how fix it?

This video is treasure!

t tried to convert the PNG to PDF and try, but it's show this error: "page-1 is image-based, camelot only works on text-based pages. [stream.py:448]". any other ways?

How about if I have an image that contains tables and I want to use Camelot to extract the table?

I couldn't install ghostscript in windows. Please help me how to resolve this issue

how can you compare the table data extracted from pdf and word files in python?

UserWarning: page-2 is image-based, camelot only works on text-based pages. [stream.py:449] i am getting this error can you please help me? with same file which you have explained even with same code which u explained.