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Extract tables from PDF

Pull the tables out of PDFs as Markdown tables and as rows of cells you can load into Excel or a database. The example reads the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0.

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PDF & Document to Markdown: OCR, Tables, Word, Excel
PDF & Document to Markdown: OCR, Tables, Word, Excelyodeling_november/document-to-markdown
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Input

Document URLs:https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.29.pdf
Output format:document
Tables as data:true
OCR:auto
OCR languages:eng
Chunk size (characters):2000
Chunk overlap (characters):200
Max pages per document:1000

Output fields

File
Type
Status
Pages
OCR pages
Tables
Words
Title
Message
Markdown
URL

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