---
name: "camelot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "camelot"
version: "0.11.0-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/camelot"
---

# camelot(1)

extract tables from PDFs

## NAME

camelot - extract tables from PDFs

## SYNOPSIS

**camelot** \[*OPTIONS*\] *COMMAND* \[*ARGS*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

-

  Camelot: PDF Table Extraction for Humans

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  Show the version and exit.

- **-q**, **--quiet** TEXT

  Suppress logs and warnings.

- **-p**, **--pages** TEXT

  Comma-separated page numbers. Example: 1,3,4 or 1,4-end or all.

- **-pw**, **--password** TEXT

  Password for decryption.

- **-o**, **--output** TEXT

  Output file path.

- **-f**, **--format** \[csv\|excel\|html\|json\|markdown\|sqlite\]

  Output file format.

- **-z**, **--zip**

  Create ZIP archive.

- **-split**, **--split\_text**

  Split text that spans across multiple cells.

- **-flag**, **--flag\_size**

  Flag text based on font size. Useful to detect super/subscripts.

- **-strip**, **--strip\_text** TEXT

  Characters that should be stripped from a string before assigning it to a cell.

- **-M**, **--margins** FLOAT...

  PDFMiner char\_margin, line\_margin and word\_margin.

- **--help**

  Show this message and exit.

### Commands:

- lattice

  Use lines between text to parse the table.

- stream

  Use spaces between text to parse the table.

## SEE ALSO

This man page has been generated with help2man.

Run camelot command --help to see the full documentation of subcommands.