Footnotes

Footnote handling.

class tabledataextractor.table.footnotes.Footnote(table, prefix, prefix_cell, text)

Defines a footnote found in the provided table. Contains elements of a footnote. Will construct the footnote and find all associated elements.

Parameters:

• table (Table) – table to work on
• prefix (str) – Prefix that has been identified as footnote prefix
• prefix_cell ((int, int)) – Index of the cell containing the associated prefix
• text (str) – Optional. Text associated with the found footnote prefix

prefix = None

Prefix string, e.g., “a)”.

prefix_cell = None

Cell index of the prefix, e.g., (7,0).

reference_cells = None

Cell indexes of the cells containing the footnote references within the table.

references = None

Cell content of the cells contatining the footnote references within the table.

text = None

Footnote text, e.g., “This is the text of a footnote”.

text_cell = None

Cell of the footnote text, e.g., (7,1).

tabledataextractor.table.footnotes.find_footnotes(table_object)

Finds a footnote and yields a Footnote object with all the appropriate properties. A footnote is defined with:

FNprefix  = \*, #, ., o, †; possibly followed by "." or ")"

A search is performed only below the data region.

Parameters:table_object (Table) – Input Table object