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title: "How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLM"
source: "OpenRouter：Announcements（RSS）"
source_tier: "t1"
url: "https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/extract-tables-from-pdf-llm/"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_3455b962bfa9e1b76ec05d06"
published: "2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z"
score: 55
channel: "ai"
tags: ["LLM","Extract Tables","PDF","LLM Send","JSON","PDFs","Extract"]
---

# How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLM

## At a glance

Send a PDF to a model that reads files, with a strict JSON schema for one row, and you get typed rows back, even from scans and tables that run across pages. We tested five routes on five PDFs and found two failures tha…

## Key points

- Extract tables from a PDF with an LLM in Python: send the PDF with a JSON schema, get typed rows, and catch the two failures that return no error.

## Full text

Extract tables from a PDF with an LLM in Python: send the PDF with a JSON schema, get typed rows, and catch the two failures that return no error.

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