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Do you happen to know how to paste regular UTF-8 text into Excel/Google sheets as multiple cells? If I copy two cells in Sheets, I get a tab character (\t) between the cells. But if I try to paste "hello \t world" into Sheets then it's just dumped into one cell.

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That's interesting. Thanks for reporting!

v3gason Show HN: Extract Table from Image

Thank you! I have also been kind of obsessed with this problem. I have tried to solve it myself, going from an image to bounding boxes and trying to separate the boxes into columns. But that problem is just fraught with edge cases, so I decided to just use an existing tool.

v3gason Show HN: Extract Table from Image

This currently returns an error if it doesn't find exactly one table in the image, so it might be able to work with larger images, but probably not if there are multiple distinct blocks of text.

v3gason Show HN: Extract Table from Image

Thanks! No, not that I know of, looks like for the AWS cli it needs to be in an S3 bucket, based on looking at this document: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/textract/an...

v3gason Show HN: Extract Table from Image

Directly, no preprocessing! The postprocessing is concatenating all words that belong to the same cell.

v3gason Show HN: Extract Table from Image

Thanks for the feedback! That is a good suggestion, I'll definitely add support for using the image URL.

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Love this! Rooting for you!

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There's also this: https://twobithistory.org/2017/09/28/the-lineage-of-man.html

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    a set of questions
    "a rhetorical quora"

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