pdftable

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Overview

cmd/pdftable is the command-line interface to the pdftable library. It mirrors pdfplumber's CLI surface for the operations pdftable implements: extract text, extract tables, dump page geometry.

Usage:

pdftable extract <file.pdf> [flags]

Flags (extract subcommand):

--pages          Comma-separated page list / dash ranges, e.g. "1,3-5". Default: all.
--tables         Emit detected tables (JSON or text per --format).
--text           Emit extracted text. Mutually exclusive with --tables.
--format         "json" (default) | "text". Output format.
--vertical-strategy    "lines" (default) | "lines_strict" | "text" | "explicit".
--horizontal-strategy  Same set; default "lines".
--snap-tolerance       Float; default 3.
--join-tolerance       Float; default 3.
--edge-min-length      Float; default 3.
--intersection-tolerance Float; default 3.
--text-tolerance         Float; default 3.
--min-words-vertical     Int; default 3.
--min-words-horizontal   Int; default 1.
--explicit-vertical-lines    Comma-separated floats; required when vertical-strategy=explicit.
--explicit-horizontal-lines  Comma-separated floats; required when horizontal-strategy=explicit.
--indent                 Int; JSON pretty-printing indent. 0 = compact.

The CLI uses the standard library `flag` package and the `pdftable` public API only — no third-party dependencies.