In newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it is a complete functional-esque language. Like SQL plus easy higher order functions.

PDFs can often be extracted too in a similar way.

I feel exhausted every time I see another thread on HN about what to do when you will not learn Excel & Office because it's for PHBs and secretaries.

And it’s *so* slow, on every PC I’ve used. It’s usually easier to just copy and paste the table, if you can.