title: Can I extract Tables from PDF using Perl?
body: <p>I need to extract table objects from PDF documents preferably programmatically using Perl. I am able to cut and paste to Excel, but the table would require quite a bit of manual editing once the data is imported into Excel. </p>
  
  <p>I've done some search, but so far it seems though most forums suggest that most APIs are very primitive. </p>