Convert PDF to CSV or Excel

[veeru1087]

Hello,

I’m exploring MuPDF and noticed that it offers the option to convert PDFs to JSON. However, this JSON output provides bounding box coordinates instead of row and column coordinates. Should we be converting bbox to row/col on our own? Am I missing an easier way to obtain row and column coordinates?

[jamie-lemon]

@veeru1087 We should have an update for table extraction coming soon in 2025 as it is something we have been actively working on. Please watch the GitHub commits over the next weeks.

[veeru1087]

@jamie-lemon Thanks for the update!

[mvdve]

@jamie-lemon Any news on the table extraction? I read here https://artifex.com/blog/table-recognition-extraction-from-pdfs-pymupdf-python that is has been added to MuPDF 1.23 but i can't find the api in the js library.

[jamie-lemon]

@veeru1087 Let me look into this further and get back to you. Out of interest - what kind of environment are you using MuPDF.js with - is it backend with Node or more front-end ( browser based ) ?

[mvdve]

Great thanks! It's a nodejs service which loads purchase orders from emails and imports them into a CRM system so fully backend.

[jamie-lemon]

Sounds good - please be aware of the AGPL license for MuPDF.js - https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf.js?tab=AGPL-3.0-1-ov-file#readme - ( a more user friendly version is here: https://artifex.com/licensing/gnu-agpl-v3 ) . In short if used for commercial purposes please abide by the details here: https://artifex.com/licensing#usage-restrictions

I will get back to you once I find out more about the tables support! (Note, should you need a license please let me know by filling out this form: https://artifex.com/contact/mupdf-js )