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Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably
- saradhi 7y agoReliably* - coming with limitations 1. Text pdfs only 2. Template is needed From what I've spoken with 50-60 paid customers for a service I maintain, the most common concerns I listen are 1. No, We get scan pdfs as well 2. No, We deal with lot of customers, cannot template all
- kjhitcher 7y agoYes, agreed that this is indeed a difficult tradeoff. Just curious, does extracttable.com provide offline mode? It seems that quite a few people can't submit their documents to 3rd party server
- saradhi 7y agoWe are far away from offline mode. May be 2-3 years later thing, if we survive till that time. Btw, did you check OpenCV morph line detection? It will help to auto detect the evident cell/row boundaries - thus reducing human effort
- kjhitcher 7y agoI did a bit, but there are tables that simply don't have any lines. Given that human beings are just so much better at detecting tables than AI, I figured maybe the solution is to help people quickly draw the table they see, rather than tweaking algorithm -- hence this new product.