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# Extract Table From PDF

This activity extracts tables from a user-specified PDF in a specific format. The output of the activity is a list of Tables.

### Input

* **Filename:** [`Object Argument`](/getting-started/rpa-studio/arguments.md#types-of-arguments) <mark style="color:red;">`Required`</mark>\
  The full path of the input PDF file.<br>
* **Output Format:**\
  The output format of the parsed tables.
  * `DataTable (default)` - Extract the table from PDF in a DataTable format
  * `JSON` - Extract the table from PDF in a JSON format
  * `CSV` - Extract the table from PDF in a CSV format<br>
* **Configuration:**

  Specifies the selector that contains the user-selected area to parse the table.<br>
* **Extraction Method:**

  Specifies the method for detecting cells in the user-specified pdf doc. The available options are:-

  * `Lattice` - Uses gridlines to identify cells in the given pdf document. This method cannot be applied for scanned documents.
  * `Stream` - Uses whitespace to detect cells in the given pdf document.
  * `Custom` - Uses the user-specified regular expressions to extract the data from the pdf page. The regular expressions should be configured by launching the **Build DataTable Window** using the configure table button. Each page will give a row of data for the extracted table.<br>
* **Page Range:** [`String Argument`](/getting-started/rpa-studio/arguments.md#types-of-arguments) <mark style="color:red;">`Required`</mark>\
  Specifies the page number or a range of page numbers of the page/pages to be processed.

{% hint style="info" %}
The page number range can be specified as the following:

\
"0" - **All pages**

"1" - **Page 1**\
"1-5" - **Pages 1 to 5**\
"1,4,6" - **Pages 1,4,6**\
"1,3,5-9,12" - **Pages 1,3,5 to 9 and 12**\
"^1" - **Last page of the given PDF**\
"^2" - **Second last page of the given PDF**\
"1,^1" - **Pages 1,Last page of the given PDF**
{% endhint %}

### Output

* **Output:**

  Saves the output as a list of tables in the specified variable. The list will be a list of DataTable or CSV or JSON according to the Output format&#x20;