Hm, that should be doable, but an annoying amount of work. I haven't done
it with tables but I have done it with bibliographic records and regex.
Helps if there is a very consistent structure to the OCR.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 1:47 PM Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) <
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> Hello List,
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> Has anyone had success converting tables in a PDF to CSV? These are scans
> of paper from the 70s on forward. I know this isn’t a super easy
> conversion, but I would think it’s not impossible either.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
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