While the steps described in the Working with Tables section are helpful when you need to normalize all of the data from a set of tables they are unnecessary when you are trying to extract a small subset of the data. If you just want the tables pushed into a CSV file the none option on the Rehydrator control will facilitate this.

Dehydrate

Dehydration is the first step. This process is described here. If you are already familiar with Deydration just ignore the option to Pre-populate from Existing Dictionary.

Rehydrate

Once Dehydration is finished select the Rehydrate option from the menu – as before select the directory that has the snipped tables and the files from the Dehydration process. From the Column Label Selection select none.

Once none has been selected the Okay button will be active. Hit Okay.

Results

The same processing files are also created during this step – however the hydrator-1-summaries.csv file has the parsed tables basically stacked – with the first row of each table representing the content from the column headings. There is an additional column ROW_WIDTH that reports the number of columns found after the Row_Label column.