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For scanned PDFs, pipe through ocrmypdf first (Pattern #11). Pattern #8: Table Extraction with Visual Debugging (pdfplumber + cv2) The Impact: pdfplumber’s .extract_table() works on 80% of PDFs. For the remaining 20%, you need to debug using bounding boxes.

import pdfplumber def extract_text_with_layout(pdf_path: str): full_text = "" with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf: for page in pdf.pages: # Preserves columns, tables, and vertical spacing text = page.extract_text(layout=True, x_tolerance=3, y_tolerance=3) full_text += text + "\n" return full_text For scanned PDFs, pipe through ocrmypdf first (Pattern #11)

Use with --deskew and --clean for optimal results. For scanned PDFs