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Extract Tables
Detect tables in a PDF and extract them as structured CSV data, with the AI handling table recognition that simpler layout-based tools can't. Useful for financial statements, research data and any tabular content in PDF form.
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Detect tables in a PDF and extract them as structured CSV data, with the AI handling table recognition that simpler layout-based tools can't. Useful for financial statements, research data and any tabular content in PDF form.
We're still building this one. We'd rather not ship it until it works reliably end-to-end — no fake progress bars, no pretend success screens.
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Going deeper
Tables as data, not pixels
Tables in PDFs are a notorious pain point for data extraction. The PDF format has no native concept of a table — cells are just text positioned at coordinates, with lines drawn between them. Reconstructing the table from those coordinates is a layout problem that layout-based tools handle poorly when tables have merged cells, multi-line cell content, or span multiple pages.
AI-based table extraction reads the rendered page as a human would, identifying the table's structure (rows, columns, headers, merged cells) from the visual layout. The result is much more reliable on real-world tables, including the messy ones in financial reports and academic papers. The output is structured CSV — one file per detected table — that you can load into Excel, a database, or a script.
For multi-page tables, the AI recognizes when a table continues across pages (often signaled by a repeated header row, or by matching column widths) and stitches the rows into a single CSV. This is something layout-based tools struggle with, because each page is processed independently. Treating the table as a semantic unit that spans pages is the AI's strength.
What you get
Features
Detect tables automatically
Output as CSV per table
Handles complex and merged cells
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Step by step
How to use
- 1
Upload a PDF that contains tables.
- 2
Click Extract.
- 3
Download a ZIP of CSV files (one per detected table).
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How this tool handles your file
When this tool ships, your PDF will be processed in memory and deleted immediately afterwards.
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