I extracted a government's entire budget from a 625-page PDF in 4 seconds (opens in new tab)

Liberia's national budget is public. By law, it has to be. Every year the Ministry of Finance publishes it as a PDF on their website, hundreds of pages of line-item spending across 117 government ministries and agencies, six years of historical and projected figures per entity. Nobody reads it. Not because nobody cares, but because a 625-page PDF with no table of structured data is functionally a write-only document. A journalist trying to track one ministry's spending has to manually find th...