Advancements in extracting tabular data from PDFs?

Hi everyone!

Is there a simple and robust method for extracting highly tabular data from a PDF without resorting to rule based regex parsing? I'm currently using PDFminer, PDFplumber and regex to build templates to extract PDFs based on the type of PDF but it's very time-consuming and tedious. Is there a better way?

I've used Langchain and OpenAI to build "Chat with your document" apps which works great for uploading a PDF of a whitepaper and asking it to …

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