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As a mechanical engineer, I want to convert tables in pdf to Excel. Basically import a .pdf and export a .xlsx with a sheet for each table in the document.

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I want this too, but with extra intelligence so that you don’t end up with extra empty columns, weird merged cell ranges, headers broken up on multiple rows, extra white space in the text.

May I request you to check our product. That "extra intelligence" is what we are differentiated from all other 99% of pdf to excel services.

Yes. Most of the PDFs I receive are created with Office products, do it many be possible to understand the formatting and ~recover the original.

I’m the founder of a startup that is solving this exact problem.

Our service Hydra allows users to extract tables from documents, even if the number of rows varies from document to document. It also handles arbitrary offset, skew and rotation.

If you’re interested: https://siftrics.com/hydra.html

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