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Fixes this security questionnaire failure. Fix: Convert Word table rows into one question and answer pair per row before extraction, read merged header rows as section titles, and reject the parse if table rows return empty answers while the document shows text in those cells. Use when the exact error in the title blo…
Shows how to render a diff of two Tiptap revisions safely: diff ProseMirror JSON at block level with hard caps, generate HTML with the same extensions so table cell colspan, rowspan and colwidth survive, then sanitize with DOMPurify keeping only allowlisted inline style properties. Use when a revision history view is …
Fixes the Document360 problem where Document360 article import lost table formatting by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center. Not for platform out…
Fixes the Document360 problem where Document360 import stripped formatting from tables by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center. Not for platform o…
Parse the HTML with a DOM parser and select tables by their captions or headers, not by position: nested tables break flat parsers because inner rows appear as part of the outer table. Use when an agent extracting results from HTML experiment reports. Not for a report whose data lives in a chart image rather than tabl…
Summarise ablations from a results table built by code: extract each ablation arm's final metrics into rows first, then write the narrative from the table, which is small by construction. Use when an agent summarising an ablation study across many arms and seeds. Not for one arm needing a deep dive into its training b…
Parse the HTML with a DOM parser and select tables by their captions or headers, not by position: nested tables break flat parsers because inner rows appear as part of the outer table. Use when an agent extracting results from HTML experiment reports. Not for a report whose data lives in a chart image rather than tabl…
Constrain the notes format or parse defensively with fallbacks: markdown tables in human notes vary in column order, missing cells, and prose between tables, so a strict parser fails on the first irregular note. Use when an agent extracting results from researchers' markdown run notes. Not for notes that are pure pros…
Fixes an agent workflow breaking because it cannot parse new hire spreadsheet with merged cells reliably. Use when parsing fails repeatedly on real-world files of this type. Not for one-off corrupt files that the source can simply re-export cleanly.
Fixes an agent run that fails parsing the access review PDF with scanned tables during access review work, by diagnosing the file structure, quarantining bad records and validating parsed output against source counts. Use when parsing, not the platform API, is what breaks the run. Not for files that parse cleanly but …
Fixes an agent that could not read Gainsight timeline notes because the API returned HTML instead of plain text after an update, by handling HTML content in the parser. Use when note text arrives as markup. Not for notes that are genuinely empty in Gainsight.
Fixes an agent run that fails parsing the access review PDF with scanned tables during access review work, by diagnosing the file structure, quarantining bad records and validating parsed output against source counts. Use when parsing, not the platform API, is what breaks the run. Not for files that parse cleanly but …
Fixes an agent PDF parser that breaks on an HTML smuggling sample carried in or beside a PDF, by separating document parsing from HTML analysis. Use when PDF parsing crashes or returns garbage on a smuggled or hybrid attachment. Not for scanned-image PDFs that need OCR.
Fixes an agent crashing on a raw cell it mistook for code: filter by cell_type and never execute non-code cells. For agent builders.
Fixes an agent dropping interactive cells when it cannot parse widget state: preserve unknown cell content instead of discarding it. For agent builders.
Fixes marker-pdf OOM on a scanned 500-page contract: split into page-range chunks, convert each separately, concatenate the markdown in order, and tune workers and image extraction. Use when large scans die partway through conversion. Not for install failures or small-file OOMs.
Fixes camelot read_pdf returning empty tables on a bordered fee schedule: verify the borders are real lines, try stream flavor, tune lattice parameters, pin table_areas, or fall back to pdfplumber. Use when visibly bordered tables are not detected. Not for scanned PDFs or cell-content accuracy issues.
Fixes chunkers dropping tables so cell-level changes never reach review. Use when a diff misses edits inside large tables. Covers extracting tables separately from prose, diffing cell by cell, and adding a table-coverage guard. Not for prose edits.
Fixes table diffs flagging every row when only column widths changed. Use when a diff reports all rows changed but no cell content moved. Covers extracting tables to a canonical row-list form and diffing content only, ignoring geometry. Not for real cell edits.
This skill fixes camelot 'ghostscript not installed' errors on financial tables. It chooses between installing Ghostscript for lattice mode and switching to stream mode for whitespace tables.
Fixes PandaDoc pricing table merge fields rendering blank in sent documents. Use when a contract goes out with an empty pricing table. Key trigger: the pricing row data is missing or the field names do not match the template exactly.
Fixes pdfplumber extract_tables returning None on bordered fee schedules. Use it when a table that looks obvious to a human yields no detected tables. Covers switching to the text-based detection strategy with tuned tolerances, rebuilding rows from word coordinates, and rasterizing plus OCR as a last resort.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - scanned schedule table read as one long column - OCR destroyed the fee tiers and the agent extracted a single blended... - [agent couldn't resolve "the Fees defined in Schedule 1 as updated" - the sc…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pdfplumber extract_tables returns None on a bordered fee schedule
Problem outcome: unknown
This skill fixes LLMs that cannot parse scanned earnings PDFs. Use it when models receive empty text or when table extraction fails on scans. It is not for born-digital PDFs; the fix is confirming the scan, OCRing into a text layer, extracting tables deterministically, and validating OCR numbers.