image2csv
Data
table extraction
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
5 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple and useful
From 2 comments
Wow this is amazing. Simple and useful. Looking forward to using it
smashah on HNThat's pretty neat.
vmchale on HN
Useful for extracting tables from scientific documents and datasheets
From 2 comments
This is really neat. A lot of the hard bits in converting scientific pdfs to text is to deal with the tables, which more often than not are graphical and usually do not have a…
jacquesm on HNI had been meaning to find or write a tool like this for ages -- often times the only place where you can find pinout information for a chip is from a table buried on page 7xx of…
ohazi on HN
Objections
Reliability of OCR tools is doubtful for production use
From 1 comment
My experience in image to text conversion softwares has not given confidence to use in production or as part of reliable workflow. What's unique or different about this tool…
focus2020 on HN
Not robust to varying table formats such as indentation
From 1 comment
Nice! Have used quite a few tools like this to convert data government agencies report in pdfs to csvs. The biggest challenge that existing tools fail to adequately address is…
bingdig on HN
Requests
Support for tables without borders
From 1 comment
Is there also a solution for automatic border detection. Last year tried reading bank statements, which were scanned slips. Unfortunately they didn't have any borders which made…
technicolorwhat on HN
Support for rotated images and multiple tables per image
From 1 comment
How fast is it? Does it work with rotated images? How about multiple tables per image?
cosmotic on HN
Handwriting support
From 1 comment
What about hand writing?
cosmotic on HN
Questions
Whether it works with letters as well as numbers
From 1 comment
Exactly the application I had in my mind. aperrin, does the tool recognize letters as well, or is it numbers only for now?
e-_pusher on HN
What license applies to the code
From 2 comments
It would be cool if you could put a license for this!
spudwaffle on HNWhat is the default license/freedom for work found on GitHub if it doesn't contain a license?
herpderperator on HN
Alternatives named
camelot-py
From 1 comment
Great project! I've had success using camelot-py (https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io) to extract tabular data from PDFs (for images, I use imagemagick to convert those to PDF). If…
arathore on HN
Tabula
From 1 comment
also https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
leeoniya on HN
WebPlotDigitizer
From 1 comment
This is similar to WebPlotDigitizer, which helps you extract data from graphs: https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/index.html
luplex on HN
Azure Form Recognizer
From 1 comment
Azure FormRecognizer API
adflux on HN
image-table-ocr
From 1 comment
A similar tool: https://github.com/eihli/image-table-ocr
roussanoff on HN