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Re:Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably by saradhi on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:05PM (#22770655)
We are far away from offline mode. May be 2-3 years later thing, if we survive till that time.

Btw, did you check OpenCV morph line detection? It will help to auto detect the evident cell/row boundaries - thus reducing human effort

Re:Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably by kjhitcher on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:54PM (#22771359)
I did a bit, but there are tables that simply don't have any lines. Given that human beings are just so much better at detecting tables than AI, I figured maybe the solution is to help people quickly draw the table they see, rather than tweaking algorithm -- hence this new product.