A snippet to extract spreadsheet data from a PDF using Tabula's tabula-extractor

tabula_basic.rb

require 'tabula'
 
pdf_file_path = "czechmaybe.pdf"
outfilename = "czechmaybe.csv"
 
out = open(outfilename, 'w')
 
extractor = Tabula::Extraction::ObjectExtractor.new(pdf_file_path, [5] ) #:all ) # 1..2643
extractor.extract.each do |pdf_page|
  pdf_page.spreadsheets.each do |spreadsheet|
    out << spreadsheet.to_csv
    out << "\n\n"
  end
end
out.close