The good news is that Excel has built-in functions that are designed specifically for these situations. But they often get overlooked because they're not part of the standard Excel toolkit most people ...

OCR library to extract text & tables from PDF files and images. Convert any image or PDF to CSV / TXT / JSON / Searchable PDF.

To do that, select the Data tab, highlight the table, and click From Table/Range in the Get & Transform Data command group of ...