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Extract tables from research papers

Pull the result tables out of scientific PDFs as rows and columns you can open in Excel. This example reads the BERT paper from arXiv.

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PDF to Text, Markdown & Tables (CSV)
PDF to Text, Markdown & Tables (CSV)isnard/pdf-text-tables-extractor
URL
Status
Pages
Processed
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

PDF URLs:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805
Tables (CSV and JSON):true
Text per page:false
Markdown:false

Output fields

URL
Status
Pages
Processed
Needs OCR
Title
Author
Created
Error

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