tabula.js

Node bindings for tabula-extractor

Bindings

tabula.js spawns a process call to java (via java -jar) to run tabula-extractor. It emits the stdout (extracted csv) and stderr (warnings and errors) as data and error events. It also emits a close event with exitCode.

Example

    var Tabula = require('tabulajs');
    var tabula = new Tabula();
    tabula.on('data', function(data) {
      console.log(data);
    });
    tabula.on('error', function(err) {
      console.log(err.toString());
    });
    tabula.on('close', function(exitCode) {
      console.log(exitCode);
    });
    tabula.convertPdfToCsv(input);

Testing

Run npm install then make test from the root of the repository to run the mocha unit tests.

Updating tabula-extractor.jar

See tabula-extractor for the original from which this is obtained. A jar is made from this git repository by bundling the files.

To make the jar file, have jruby installed. Then clone tabula-extractor and run the following commands from the root of the git repo:

jruby -S gem install bundler
jruby -S gem install warbler
jruby -S bundle install
jruby -S warble

This should produce the jar tabula-extractor.jar (located in lib/).