Table Extraction Tools Fail on Images, PDFs, and JS-Heavy Pages
Standard table extraction tools only work on clean HTML tables, breaking entirely on image-based content, complex PDFs, or dynamically rendered pages. This leaves analysts and researchers manually re-entering data that is visually present but structurally inaccessible to conventional scrapers.
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