Pdf parsing

You have a PDF on disk, a deadline in front of you, and a table trapped in a layout that was designed for human eyes, not data pipelines. Copy-paste wrecks the columns. Export fails. A parser grabs half the rows and quietly drops the rest. That's the normal starting point when you need to extract tabular data from PDF files in production. The annoying part is that PDFs look structured while often behaving like positioned text, vector lines, or page images. A table that seems simple in a