Welcome to gmft's documentation!
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gmft is a lightweight, performant, configurable, deep library for converting pdf tables to many formats, including cropped image, text + positions, plaintext, csv, and pandas dataframes. 

To see the approximate quality of gmft, the eval notebook `(colab) <https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fEqsTdKcO5RNPV_b2v9cB4Y5We9Kv-hR>`_ `(github) <https://github.com/conjuncts/gmft/blob/main/notebooks/bulk_extract.ipynb>`_ shows the output of gmft on a variety of pdfs.

To see how gmft stacks up against the many alternatives, `this <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12IhxHZbYF71dPl32PQpF_6pg9e9S8f9W4sTHt-B0KTg>`_ comparison may help you decide which library is best for your use case. 

Check out the :doc:`usage` section, including
:ref:`installation` instructions.

Check out the :doc:`config` section for a description on gmft's settings.

.. note::

   This project is under active development.

Table of Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3
   :caption: Pages

   usage
   config
   rag
   faq
   advanced
   gmft_toplevel