Header lines divide table cell and make from one cell two different cells

[gkukawski]

Hi. I have a problem with one pdf.
It's just a table and I want to read it as a table.
But there is some additional lines on the page. It looks like header od pdf.
It exists on each page.
It causes that firs row is divided and it makes two records in result instead of one.

How can I fix that?
THanks in advanced for your help.

[jsvine]

Hi @gkukawski, and thanks for sharing that debug_tablefinder(...) output. Without access to the PDF itself, it's difficult to provide detailed suggestions, but in general:

• Examine the objects in page.rects and page.lines. Do there seem to be attributes that distinguish the lines you want from those you don't?
• If so, you can use filtered = page.filter(...) to remove those (you can see some examples of this in other discussions), and then filtered.extract_table(...).