PDF OCR Table Extractor

A Python tool that processes PDFs, extracts specified pages, performs OCR, converts text into structured tables, and saves them as CSV files. Supports batch processing of all PDFs in a folder with parallel execution.

Features

• Extracts single pages or page ranges from PDFs
• OCR via Tesseract
• Converts detected tables into CSV format
• Handles multi-line table cells
• Processes all PDFs in input_pdfs/ in parallel
• Saves raw text and structured CSV outputs
• Graceful error handling and logging

Setup

1. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install Tesseract:

   • Linux: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
   • Mac: brew install tesseract

3. Install Poppler:

   • Linux: sudo apt install poppler-utils
   • Mac: brew install poppler

4. Place PDFs in input_pdfs/.

5. Run: python main.py

6. Outputs are saved in output_csv/.