CAMELOT(1)

💅 CAMELOT(1) — User Commands

okay bestie, gather round, because camelot is literally the moment 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

camelot — extract tables from PDFs. yes. THE tables. from THE PDFs. no cap 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

camelot [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options, then a command, then whatever that command wants 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Camelot: PDF Table Extraction for Humans 🫶

like… it's giving "I've spent six hours highlighting a table in a PDF and crying." not anymore, bestie. 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --version — shows you the version and then dips. bye ✨
• -q, --quiet TEXT — shhh 🤫 suppresses logs and warnings so your terminal stops screaming at you.
• -p, --pages TEXT — pick your pages, comma-separated. Example: 1,3,4 or 1,4-end or all. the -end and all slay so hard ngl 💅
• -pw, --password TEXT — password for decryption. locked PDF? not anymore 🔓
• -o, --output TEXT — output file path. where your masterpiece goes 💖
• -f, --format [csv|excel|html|json|markdown|sqlite] — output file format. six options and every single one of them ate 🔥
• -z, --zip — create a ZIP archive. zip it zip it 🎀
• -split, --split_text — split text that spans across multiple cells. rooms divided, boundaries respected ✂️
• -flag, --flag_size — flags text based on font size. super useful for detecting super/subscripts 👀 tiny text detected, tracked, exposed.
• -strip, --strip_text TEXT — characters that should be stripped from a string before assigning it to a cell. give it the ick, take it out 🧹
• -M, --margins FLOAT... — the PDFMiner char_margin, line_margin and word_margin. three floats, one flag, obsessed 📐
• --help — show this message and exit. the classic. the icon. 🙈

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🦋 Commands:

• lattice — uses the lines between text to parse the table. if your table has actual borders, this is your girl 🍓
• stream — uses the spaces between text to parse the table. no lines? no problem, spaces carrying the whole operation 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• this man page has been generated with help2man 🧚
• run camelot command --help to see the full documentation of subcommands. fr fr, go read it, there's more where this came from ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 it's from __main__.py, version 0.11.0, dated January 2026, and yes — CAMELOT(1) stays iconic, periodt 👑✨