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There was some work at the Wellcome Collection several years ago looking at extracting tabular information from digitised materials - a brief review suggests that Abbyy FineReader Engine 11 was used to identify tables, although there were a number of challenges - how far those challenges were overcome wasn't clear to me from a brief review, but if this is of interest there's a post at https://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/1-million-tables-and-counting-7e7e6c9f76e plus a report the Wellcome Collection commissioned at https://github.com/wellcometrust/wellcomecollection.org/files/2148381/Scoping.MOH.for.data.recovery.report.-.final.pdf Christy Henshaw at the Wellcome Collection may be able to share some of their experience and learning if you reach out to them https://twitter.com/chenshaw Best wishes Owen On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 19:47, Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello List, > > 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 > > -- > > Andrea Medina-Smith > Data Librarian > Information Services Office > National Institute of Standards and Technology > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217-701X > > > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [log in to unmask]