You are wrong. Pdf.js can extract text and has all facilities required to render and extract formatting. The latest version can also edit PDF files. It’s basically the same engine as the Firefox PDF viewer. Which also has a document outline, search, linking, print preview, scaling, scripting sandbox… it does not simply „render” a file.

Regarding tables, this here https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-table-extractor does a very good job at table interpretation and works on top of pdf.js.

I also didn’t say what works better or worse, neither do I go into PDF being good or bad.

I simply said that a ton of problems have been covered by