Obtaining and extracting data from a PDF is crucial for reorganizing & presenting data according to your own requirements. While you can view, save and print PDF files with ease, editing or attempting to scrape, parse or extract data from PDF files can be a pain.įor example, have you ever tried to extract tables from PDF documents? Or convert PDF bank statements to Excel? Challenges in PDF data extraction The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the go to file format for sharing & exchanging data between organizations, businesses & institutions.