microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
Table exctraction from PDF is advertised but completely absent
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Description
Version 0.1.3
docker run --rm -i markdown:latest < ~/example.pdf > output.md
where example.pdf is a native PDF (not a scanned document).
markitdown extracts the text but there's no sign of tables, the output is simply interleaved by newlines.
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Research direction
Reproduce the report with the provided docker command and a native, non-scanned example.pdf using markitdown 0.1.3. Trace the PDF conversion path responsible for the newline-interleaved output and check how tables are represented; done means table structure is preserved in the generated Markdown.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- content
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3/5
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- 1-2 days
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