is better readable for the human eye. – to_pandas(): this method returns the table as a pandas DataFrame. DataFrames are very versatile objects allowing a plethora of table manipulation methods and outputs almost 20 well-known formats, among them Excel files, CSV, JSON, markdown-formatted tables and more. DataFrame.to_markdown() generates a Github-compatible markdown format optimized for human readability. This now allow None as the cell value, because this will be resolved where needed (e.g. in the pandas DataFrame). We previously tried to enforce rect-like tuples in all header cell bboxes, however this fails