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camelot-dev/camelot A tool that works on your files

Put the tables from a PDF into an Excel workbook

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • a PDF with selectable text and ruled tables; scans are not supported

You get

  • one Excel worksheet per detected table, in page order
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

camelot-dev/camelot on GitHub

Licence. MIT

The 6 recipe files

Recipe revision c6512248675a, from eef30ac105af.

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Documents and text

Convert, read and proofread PDFs, Office files and text.

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