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Re:Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pret... by bonyt on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:45PM (#21346360)
Tabula is a helpful tool for extracting tables from PDFs, although its more for large tables of data, often spanning many pages, rather than the odd copy-and-paste.

https://tabula.technology

As for your specific example, you can download tables from EDGAR in other formats, like HTML and iXBRL. The HTML table will usually paste into Excel well.

HTML: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313216/0000313216190...

iXBRL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313216/0000313216180...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL

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