Agreed, but there exist solutions [0] to make even PDF tables machine-readable (optionally making use of machine learning techniques). It's incredibly backwards

Agreed, but there exist solutions [0] to make even PDF tables machine-readable (optionally making use of machine learning techniques). It's incredibly backwards and much harder than, say, CSV, but it might get the machine-reading job done. 0: https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/ https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/