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Sometimes, a PDF file is corrupted or encrypted making it hard to extract data from it directly. In this case, you can convert a PDF page to an image first and then use AI tools (e.g., Table Image to CSV Converter) to extract data from it.

AI-powered Tools

• GPT - Table Extractor

• Table Image to CSV Converter

Web-based Tools

Stirling-PDF is is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker.

Python Libraries

• pdf2text

• pdfplumber

References

• Editing PDF Files