For simple cases, I've also found "pdftotext -layout" useful. For a quick on-off job, this would save someone the trouble of assembling the lines themselves. I

For simple cases, I've also found "pdftotext -layout" useful. For a quick on-off job, this would save someone the trouble of assembling the lines themselves. I have used this in the past to extract tables, but it doesn't help much in cases where you need font size information.