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marcobra edited this page Nov 20, 2014 · 15 revisions

Using the tabula-extractor command line tool

See also: README.md in the main repo.

How to install tabula-extractor in ubuntu (tested on 14.04 and 14.10)

tabula-extractor only works with JRuby 1.7 or newer. Install JRuby and run jruby -S gem install tabula-extractor

-- 1 -- We must install jruby first:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/jruby.org/downloads/1.7.16.1/jruby-bin-1.7.16.1.tar.gz

tar zxvf jruby-bin-1.7.16.1.tar.gz

append to ~/.bashrc the rows below:

export JRUBY_HOME=$HOME/jruby-1.7.16.1

export PATH=$JRUBY_HOME/bin:$PATH

Then install jruby

jruby -S gem install jruby-openssl

Finally install tabula-extractor:

jruby -S gem install tabula-extractor

Then try run it

tabula --help

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