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 /results/
 /data
-/table_parsing.egg-info
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+/table_parsing.egg-info
+/tests/VV-313450.pdf
+/vidocp.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+/vidocp.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+/vidocp.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+/vidocp.egg-info/top_level.txt
diff --git a/tests/test_table_parsing.py b/tests/test_table_parsing.py
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+import pytest
+from vidocp.table_parsing import parse_table
+import numpy as np
+import pdf2image
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def rects():
+    page_index = 0
+    pdf_path = "/home/lillian/vidocp/tests/VV-313450.pdf"
+    page = pdf2image.convert_from_path(pdf_path, first_page=page_index + 1, last_page=page_index + 1)[0]
+    page = np.array(page)
+    rectangles = parse_table(page)
+    return rectangles
+
+
+def test_num_of_rects(rects):
+    assert len(rects) == 49
+
+
+def test_range_of_rects(rects):
+    expected_range = ((210, 605), (1430, 1620))
+    topleft = min(rects)
+    x,y,w,h = max(rects)
+    bottomright = (x+w, y+h)
+
+    assert topleft >= expected_range[0]
+    assert bottomright <= expected_range[1]
+