Text with imaginary lines is being treated as a table

[sachinnethakanipersonal]

Describe the bug

We are trying to extract tables out of pdf file and we are trying to export them as an image for our further analysis. But what we have found is there are few cases where we have found that the page.debug_tablefinder() is extracting the text more precisely paragraphs also with imaginary lines as a table

Code to reproduce the problem

page.debug_tablefinder({"intersection_tolerance":8})

Expected behavior

Only the true tables with proper borders or lines are extracted

Actual behavior

Text with imaginary lines/borders is being treated as a table

Screenshots

this is one of the examples which is treated as a table

Environment

• pdfplumber version: 0.11.0
• Python version: 3.12.2
• OS: Windows/Databricks

Additional context

Apologies, I may not be able to share the documents as they are part of the legal contracts

[jsvine]

Without access to the PDF itself, it will be difficult to provide suggestions, unfortunately. But you may find some similar examples in the discussions by searching for "invisible lines".