Tabula VS Amazon Textract

Tabula Reviews

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Tabula mentions (35)

• Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

  As for self-hosted web apps, Tabula (https://tabula.technology) is a great tool to extract tables from PDF files. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• SumatraPDF Reader

  For extracting to tables I've been using http://tabula.technology/ for a couple of years. It seems to do a pretty good job even with some fairly complex tables and I've not had any problems with it. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the current best way to extract tables from PDFs?

  To extract tables from PDFs, you can use the following tools: 1. Tabula (https://tabula.technology): a free and open-source tool. 2. Parsio (https://parsio.io): uses pre-trained AI models for data extraction from PDFs, emails, and other formats. 3. Airparser (https://airparser.com): uses GPT approach similar to ChatGPT for data extraction from PDFs, emails, and other formats. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• PDF tables to Excel

  You might want to look at https://tabula.technology. Source: 10 months ago

• PDF to Excel (Free)

  Seconding the recommendation for Tabula. It's a great tool, and is free and open source. Source: 11 months ago

Amazon Textract mentions (34)

• Classifying and Extracting Data using Amazon Textract

  Amazon Textract has an Analyze Lending API for evaluating and categorizing the documents contained in mortgage loan application packages, as well as extracting the data they contain. The new API can assist in processing applications quicker and with minimal errors, therefore improving the end-customer experience and lowering operational costs. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive script?

  You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js

  Create a main.js file inside the look-for-github-profile-step project folder. Implement the code that parses the resume and plucks the GitHub profile URL. This step function is responsible for using Textract (an AI service from AWS) and passing state back to the state machine. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Automate invoice processing using AWS Textract

  The primary challenge in processing invoices is extracting the relevant data. This is where Amazon Textract can help. It is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses advanced Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to automatically extract structured and unstructured data from scanned documents, images, and PDF files. It can detect typed and handwritten text in different types of documents including... - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Case study: PDF Insights with AWS Textract and OpenAI integration

  First, we’ve decided to leave open-source solutions behind. We’ve used AWS Textract to parse PDF files. This way we don’t rely on the internal structure of the PDF to get text from it (or to get nothing - like in the case of the Uber example). Textract uses OCR and machine learning to get not only text but also spatial information from the document. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago