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Table detection is heuristic and works best on whitespace-aligned or ruled tables whose cells line up at regular positions. Merged cells, nested tables, split columns, and rotated text may come out incomplete or with values shifted into the wrong cell. Scanned or image-only PDFs contain no extractable text, so no tables can be detected until the pages are OCRed first. A table that continues across a page boundary is treated as two separate tables; check the page markers and join the rows manually in combined mode.

How to use this tool

  1. Upload a PDF that contains tables as real text — this pipeline reads embedded text, so image-only scans need OCR first.
  2. Pick the pages to scan: all pages, or a specific page range to limit detection to the section you care about.
  3. Choose how the result is organized: one worksheet per detected table, or all tables combined into a single sheet.
  4. Download the .xlsx and spot-check the cells — detection is heuristic, so verify row alignment before relying on the export.