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Cannot import read_pdf_table

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Summary

Environment

Paste the output of python --version command on your terminal: Python 2.7.14
Paste the output of java -version command on your terminal: java version “1.8.0_144” Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01) Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode)
Does java -h command work well - yes; Ensure your java command is included in PATH - yes
Write your OS and it’s version: Mac OS High Sierra Ver 10.13.3
(Optional, but really helpful) Your PDF URL:

What did you do when you faced the problem?

I tried to import both read_pdf and read_pdf_table. read_pdf_table gave error however read_pdf works fine.

Example code:

from tabula import read_pdf, read_pdf_table

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name read_pdf_table

What did you intend to be?

How to import read_pdf_table. Please help.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

chezoucommented, Feb 9, 2018

read_pdf_table is obsolete. pleas use read_pdf instead.

0reactions

chezoucommented, Jan 28, 2020

I strongly not recommend installing tabula-py via conda since the conda-forge recipe isn’t maintained well.

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