Training to read PDF documents. Any ideas?

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Currently I use regex to identify patterns coupled with the OCR library (Tesseract) to import PDF data into dataframes. It's a bit of hit n miss process. Every new exception has to be built into regex. I was wondering if machine learning can take up the job?

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