# Government form tables to CSV

**Use case:** 

Government forms and filings are full of tables that are a nuisance to retype - rate schedules, allowance tables, line-item worksheets. Point this at the PDF and every table comes back as rows and columns, with empty cells kept as null so a blank in one column never shifts the numbers in the next. Markdown and CSV come with each table, ready for a spreadsheet.

## Input

```json
{
  "pdfUrls": [
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf"
  ],
  "strategy": "auto",
  "minRows": 3,
  "minColumns": 2,
  "requireCaption": false,
  "minQualityScore": 25,
  "maxPagesPerPdf": 0,
  "maxFileSizeMb": 50,
  "includeMarkdown": true,
  "includeCsv": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "fileName": {
    "label": "File"
  },
  "pageNumber": {
    "label": "Page"
  },
  "tableIndex": {
    "label": "#"
  },
  "caption": {
    "label": "Caption"
  },
  "rowCount": {
    "label": "Rows"
  },
  "columnCount": {
    "label": "Cols"
  },
  "emptyCellCount": {
    "label": "Empty cells"
  },
  "qualityScore": {
    "label": "Quality"
  },
  "extractionStrategy": {
    "label": "Strategy"
  },
  "header": {
    "label": "Header"
  },
  "rows": {
    "label": "Data"
  },
  "markdown": {
    "label": "Markdown"
  },
  "csv": {
    "label": "CSV"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

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