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Hello all,

iisaackogan
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Hello all,
I’m looking to expand past XML to PDFs, and the one big issue is the one issue everyone has—tables. Is there a recommended OSS way to read them? Specifically something you’d recommend be used with LlamaIndex?
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LLogan M
probably unstructured will be the best OSS solution
LLogan M
but overall tables are hard
LLogan M
marked is another OSS library that does ok-ish
iisaackogan
Is OCR an acceptable solution
LLogan M
OCR is really only half of the solution
iisaackogan
in what sense
LLogan M
Sure you can get the text -- but then you need to make sure its formatted nicely
iisaackogan
Oh of course yeah
iisaackogan
Oh crap
iisaackogan
And then there’s the issue of hyperlinks
iisaackogan
God I hate PDFs
LLogan M
it really is the worst file format possible lol
LLogan M
and the most used
sshawtyisaten
@isaackogan mind sharing the pdf file you're trying to read?
iisaackogan
no sorry I’m testing with my employee pay statement 💀
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