Question: I am looking for script to extract table text from pdfs using pdfminer. I have tried tabula but I am looking to integrate the normal text and table text to a database. Any ideas on how to implement this are welcome.

Answer: 
Thanks everyone! Not sure what was wrong with r for a bit but I reinstalled. I ended up unzipping manually and loading up the files.
1. On Debian or Ubuntu, first install the package xz-utils

```
$ sudo apt-get install xz-utils

```

2. Extract a .tar.xz the same way you would extract any tar.\_\_ file.

```
$ tar -xf file.tar.xz

```

Done.