Bookmarked a post about Document OCR that recreates the whole tables with text.
Lost to wanacry, cannot find it since. Backup is important, learned the hard way.
Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (edinburghhacklab.com) 92 points by tlarkworthy on Sept 5, 2013 | 12 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6334178#6337769
http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-o...