[5] Monarch Table Extractor Lessons

Monarch Table Extractor is designed for ordinary people who wish to do extraordinary things with PDF files.

Available only with a Monarch Complete with Table Extractor license, the application allows you to identify tables in text-heavy PDF files, select them, modify them if you wish, and then export them to Data Prep Studio for further data preparation.

Figure 5-1. A typical Monarch Table Extractor workflow.

Monarch Table Extractor provides easy-to-use interfaces to perform the following:

q  Automatically look for and define tables in a document

·         within a page,

·         in all pages, or

·         in specific pages.

q  Modify tables that have been defined (e.g., modify headers, rename columns, and delete columns)

q  Create a custom table

q  Export tables to Monarch Data Prep Studio

 

The lessons outlined in this tutorial provide a very brief overview of what you can do with Monarch Table Extractor. To learn more about this application, click here.