How to Fix PDF Table Duplication in RAG / LLM Pipelines (Python)

<p>PDF tables look simple until you actually extract one. The visual structure in your reader is a rendering artifact. The underlying file has no table object, no row, no cell:

<p>When you need to extract tables from PDFs in Python, three libraries dominate every Stack Overflow answer and tutorial from the past few years: Tabula, Camelot, and pdfplumber.

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