Acrobat (full version) has an export to excel function. I’ve used it before and my table data was exported correctly as each value was in an excel cell.

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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matt Sherman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Converting old tables in PDF to CSV
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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.

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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.
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> Thanks,
> Andrea
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