How Can Tabula Help Me? If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Download & Install Tabula Windows & Linux users will need a copy of Java installed. You can download Java here. (Java is included in the Mac version.) Download the version of Tabula for your operating system: Windows: tabula-win.zip

tabula-win.zip Mac OS X: tabula-mac.zip

tabula-mac.zip Linux/Other: tabula-jar.zip, view README.txt inside for instructions Extract the zip file. (Instructions: Windows, Mac) Go into the folder you just extracted. Run the "Tabula" program inside. A web browser will open. If it doesn't, open your web browser, and go to http://localhost:8080. There's Tabula!