Detecting one extra empty column in the table

[kathimohan]

pdfplumber detecting extra column in a table by taking start of page to first vertical line as one column but needs to take table from the first vertical line, how to make it possible.

[jsvine]

Hi @kathimohan. Without the code or PDF, this is a difficult question to answer. Please provide those, as well as a more detailed explanation of the problem you're trying to solve. Thanks!

[jsvine]

Did you also examine .rects? Sometimes PDFs draw "lines" as narrow rectangles.

[kathimohan]

but how to find whether rect is horizontal line or vertical line

[jsvine]

That should be possible by comparing the "height" property to the "width" property.

[kathimohan]

I didn't get, can u pls give me some idea. This is one vertical lines rect dimensions - {'x0': 36.0, 'y0': 36.04, 'x1': 576.0, 'y1': 756.0, 'width': 540.0, 'height': 719.96, 'pts': [(36.0, 756.0), (576.0, 756.0), (576.0, 36.04), (36.0, 36.04)], 'linewidth': 0.0375, 'stroke': False, 'fill': True, 'evenodd': False, 'stroking_color': None, 'non_stroking_color': (1, 1, 1), 'object_type': 'rect', 'page_number': 17, 'top': 36.0, 'bottom': 755.96, 'doctop': 12708.0}

[jsvine]

Unfortunately, I don't have time to walk through the specifics of this PDF, although it's possible that someone else in the community does. In the meantime, you may find pdfplumber's visual debugging tools useful: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber#visual-debugging

In particular:

page = pdf.pages[0]
im = page.to_image()
im.draw_rects(page.rects)