title: Programmatically Extract PDF Tables
body: <p>I have a bunch of PDF docs with tabular data in them which I need to extract into a more readable format to store in a spreadsheet, database or whatever.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything out in the world (preferably free) that is able to get tabular data out of PDFs into a more readable format <strong><em>in bulk</em></strong> either natively integrated with an app or passively via command line or looping the process in code(.net)?</p>
  
  <p>Can be any format really (doc, html) just as long as the tables are maintained.</p>
  
  <p>Anything I've found so far is either a one-off (only does one doc at a time, I have hundreds, that isn't happening) or does not maintain the table structure.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas please post.</p>