I don't know if anyone can suggest some tools, but my minor problem with PDFs is that any kind of data table gets absolutely mangled/unusable for cut/paste purp

I don't know if anyone can suggest some tools, but my minor problem with PDFs is that any kind of data table gets absolutely mangled/unusable for cut/paste purposes after creation. It's like somehow the PDF generation process randomizes the order in which it populates tables, such that selecting by a user later is generally impossible. Maybe it needs to be interpreted / extracted from the PDF source itself, but average user graphical selection of a table is out the window.