For example, from Philips 2018 annual report [0], I copy the income statement, and I get the below when I paste. I found it impossible to get this into Excel or any other table format, without writing a Python program for it. Your tool still made it as one column. If there's a way you can automatically detect the 3 numeric columns below, you can have a large audience of finance folk analyzing PDF documents.
Sales. 17,422 17,780 18,121 Cost of sales (9,484) (9,600) (9,568) Gross margin 7,939 8,181 8,554 Selling expenses (4,142) (4,398) (4,500) General and administrative expenses (658) (577) (631) Research and development expenses (1,669) (1,764) (1,759) 6 Other business income. 17 152 88 6 Other business expenses. (23) (76) (33) 6 Income from operations. 1,464 1,517 1,719 7 Financial income. 65 126 51 7 Financial expenses. (507) (263) (264) Investments in associates, net of income taxes 11 (4) (2) Income before taxes 1,034 1,377 1,503 8 Income tax expense. (203) (349) (193) Income from continuing operations 831 1,028 1,310 3 Discontinued operations, net of income taxes. 660 843 (213) Net income 1,491 1,870 1,097 Attribution of net income Net income attributable to Koninklijke Philips N.V. shareholders 1,448 1,657 1,090 Net income attributable to non-controlling interests 43 214 7
[0] https://www.philips.com/c-dam/corporate/about-philips/sustai...