Installation

Installation#

This part of the documentation covers the steps to install pypdf_table_extraction.

Note

ghostscript is replaced by pdfium as the default image conversion backend in v1.0.0. Which should make this library easier to install with just a pip install (on linux).

You can use one of the following methods to install pypdf_table_extraction:

pip#

To install pypdf_table_extraction from PyPI using pip

$ pip install "pypdf-table-extraction"

conda#

conda is a package manager and environment management system for the Anaconda distribution. It can be used to install pypdf_table_extraction from the conda-forge channel

$ conda install -c conda-forge pypdf-table-extraction

From the source code#

You can install pypdf_table_extraction from source by:

  1. Cloning the GitHub repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf_table_extraction.git

  1. And then simply using pip again.

$ cd pypdf_table_extraction
$ pip install "."

Tip

You can still use the ghostscript` backend after After installing the dependencies.