Jeremy Singer-Vine

For text extraction, add fractional versions of `x/y_tolerance` arguments

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Currently, `x_tolerance` and `y_tolerance` are treated as numeric constants. But, as @Sarke points on in https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/606#issuecomment-1703456276, it could be useful to provide a "fractional" version of these arguments: > [...]...

Add `Page.table_of_contents`

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... probably as a `@property` method. This should(?) be relatively straightforward, and seems like it'd be helpful: - https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/456#discussioncomment-947380 - https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/1018#issuecomment-1769517654

Add `normalize_unicode=False/True` parameter to text extraction methods

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Per @petermr's suggestion in https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/904#discussioncomment-6149469, I think it's a good idea to add such a parameter/option, using `unicodedata.normalize(...)` — in a similar vein to the `expand_ligatures` parameter added in v0.9.0....

Parse data from NY's historical PDFs

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Responding to the call-out here: https://github.com/biglocalnews/warn-scraper/issues/476 This being my first commit to the project, and not knowing how the maintainers would like to handle the overlap between the data sources,...

See, e.g., [this table from #808](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/808#discussioncomment-13030277): It seems possible that `TableFinder` could, after a first pass at detecting tables, "complete" the outer borders of tables like these. The first step...