# capture data from PDF tables

Upload a <span class="caps">PDF</span>, get back tabular <span class="caps">CSV</span> data.

- [Introducing Tabula](http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/)
- [Tabula Demo Site](http://tabula.nerdpower.org/)
- [Tabula source code](https://github.com/jazzido/tabula)

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<span class="caps">EDIT</span>:

I just used this application with great success to convert the data from old instructor evaluations into csv form. It took some jury-rigging to get the output into the form that I wanted for this reason: Tabula only selects one table at a time, so if you want info from multiple tables on the same sheet, you need to do that yourself. I stitched my data together using R and it seems to be doing okay. Feel free to email me with questions: <eitan.arom@gmail.com>