Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
Possibly. If you wanted to enter all the tables... Which would be a massive job in itself, even assuming you scanned and OCR'd the tables. (Don't even get me started on typing them in by hand; I did that ONCE, in the early days on my mates old BBC (I think; that or something similar) computer. Never again!
Assuming you could extract tabular data (instead of just text on a page that looked like tables) automatically I don't think it would be that much work. I'm wondering more about how much it would pay off than how much work would go into it.