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== How Can Tabula Help Me? == | == How Can Tabula Help Me? == | ||
-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux. | If you've ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is -- there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux. | ||
== Who Uses Tabula? == | == Who Uses Tabula? == | ||
Tabula is used to power investigative reporting at news organizations of all sizes, including ProPublica, The Times of London, Foreign Policy, La Nacion (Argentina), The New York Times and the St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press. | |||
Grassroots organizations like SchoolCuts.org rely on Tabula to turn clunky documents into human-friendly public resources. | Grassroots organizations like SchoolCuts.org rely on Tabula to turn clunky documents into human-friendly public resources. | ||
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=== Start the local application === | === Start the local application === | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
cd ~/bin/tabula | cd ~/bin/tabula | ||
java -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -Xms256M -Xmx1024M -jar tabula.jar | java -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -Xms256M -Xmx1024M -jar tabula.jar | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
=== Launch the local website === | === Launch the local website === | ||