Extract table form pdf file

Is is possible by code to extract table from pdf file to reuse it for other purpose. If yes please let me know the code. thanks

No, because there is no such thing as a "table" in a PDF.  That may be how you as the viewer interprets the data, but in the PDF specification there is nothing defining a "table".  You would need to design your own logic to determine what parts of the PDF content you want to consider a "table" and then based on that, extract the data you want.

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