Ruby gem for extracting tables from PDF as a structured info

22/11/2018
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Iguvium renders pdf into an image, looks for table-like graphic structure and tries to place characters into detected cells.Characters extraction is done by PDF::Reader gem. Some PDFs are so messed up it can't extract meaningful text from them. If so, so does Iguvium.Current version extracts regular (with constant number of rows per column and vise versa) tables with explicit lines formatting, like this:.
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