Detected spreadsheet area too small

[jazzido]

Note the last ruling line at the right of the table:

Since that line is not included in the detected table area, the last column is not included in the extraction:

PDF is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdneizaxgrsydqe/helen_boaden_central_bookings_q3_2011_12.pdf?dl=0

[jeremybmerrill]

This is in newUI-ruby?

[jeremybmerrill]

The thing that treats the selection boundaries as rulings should deal with this, no?

[jazzido]

The too-small area comes directly from tabula-extractor, so it will also happen in tabulapdf/tabula@master .

There's no user selection involved in this issue, so the selection-boundaries-as-rulings feature won't solve it.

[jazzido]

A possible solution would be expand the detected area by a small factor; big enough so it covers the entire area of interest but small enough so it doesn't overlap with other elements in the page.

[jeremybmerrill]

@jazzido I don't see why that wouldn't solve it. Even if the selection areas come from tabula-extractor, we can still buffer them a bit to include lines.

A better solution might be outputting detected tables using the OUTER coordinates of the lines that comprise them. Do you think the problem could be that easy to solve?

[CJLees01]

Is this ticket still live? I still see this on the version 1.2.1 of tabula.