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Iterate on table settings using this debug output. Pattern #9: Dynamic PDF Generation from Templates (reportlab + HTML) The Impact: Generating PDFs from scratch with reportlab is powerful but verbose. Modern approach: use reportlab + preppy or embed HTML via pisa .

Extract word bounding boxes, then cluster by Y-axis tolerance. Iterate on table settings using this debug output

Sign an existing PDF without breaking other annotations. Extract word bounding boxes, then cluster by Y-axis

import pdfplumber import cv2 import numpy as np def debug_table_extraction(pdf_path: str, page_num: int): with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf: page = pdf.pages[page_num] im = page.to_image(resolution=150) table = page.extract_table() # Draw bounding boxes around each extracted cell for row in table: for cell in row: # cell is just text, but we have page.debug_tablefinder() pass # Actually use table finder: table_settings = "vertical_strategy": "lines", "horizontal_strategy": "lines" tables = page.find_tables(table_settings) debug_img = page.to_image() for t in tables: debug_img = debug_img.draw_rect(t.bbox) debug_img.save("table_debug.png", format="PNG") Extract word bounding boxes