Extracting Dirty Tables from Multi-Page PDFs into Clean Pandas DataFrames
Extracting financial tables from scanned and vector PDFs is notoriously frustrating. Libraries like tabula-py often miss borders or misalign columns. Here is the exact routine I built using pdfplumber and pandas. Implementation Code import pdfplumber import pandas as pd def extract_clean_tables(pdf_path): all_rows = [] with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf: for page in pdf.pages: table = page.extract_table() … Read more