pdftotext from xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html) also has the -table option which usually works better

pdftotext from xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html) also has the -table option which usually works better than -layout. Unfortunately the poppler-utils fork doesn't have this option.