Convert PDF to text, preserving tables

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What's the best software to convert a PDF file to text preserving its tables?

The tables might be converted into __ or ---; doesn't matter but I want to preserve them.

See also: Software that can extract tables from PDF files – unor Sep 1 '16 at 14:34 — unor, Sep 1 '16 at 14:34

unor · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-13 16:51:58Z

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PDFGenie by PDFTron has very strong table detection/extraction. It outputs to HTML tables.

The blog post Table extraction and PDF to XML with PDFGenie explains the product in more detail.

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