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[paulrougieux]

Thanks for posting this fork of pdftables. Could you also post the git commit history from that project?

[chrisdev]

@paul4forest I'm sorry but I never has access to this. The scraper wiki folks removed it just after I cloned it from bitbucket I think? It may have been using Hg I'm can't remember. So I moved things over to GitHub. Unfortunately, I never was able to make much progress on this and I found a better approach anyway. I'll probably should delete this from my Github

[paulrougieux]

pdftables will still remain available if you delete this repository because there is already another fork. That fork adds some improvements to work with pdfminer.

I found a better approach anyway

Could you explain your approach in a few words?

I currently use the Okular PDF viewer to copy paste tabes, based on a StackOverFlow answer.

[chrisdev]

@paul4forest I've switched to using http://poppler.freedesktop.org in my internal projects. Even though it's not Python based, least it was reliable and I hacked something together using subprocess calls.

[paulrougieux]

Thanks I actually noticed that Okular is using Poppler in the background, based on this list of programs using poppler.