Are you able to highlight the text on the PDF? If so, I highly recommend PDF2TXT to extract text from PDFs. Would require some parsing work on your part to convert it back to a table, but zero chance of error from inference since it’s using text extraction.

If you can’t highlight the text, it won’t work.

You can make any PDFs 'highlightable' with GitHub.com/ocrmypdf

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Thanks!

PDF -> Markdown looks like a pretty great use case

Just added box detection support -- maybe I'll start from here https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR#-box-detection

Tabula.

It does what you are looking for

I use popper pdftotext -layout flag, which preserves the shape of the tables. Gpt can then fix them up into whatever format.