diff --git a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
index 3232079e66..2d5ee4910c 100644
--- a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
+++ b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import nu.xom.Attribute;
 import nu.xom.Element;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
 import org.grobid.core.document.xml.XmlBuilderUtils;
 import org.grobid.core.engines.Engine;
 import org.grobid.core.engines.config.GrobidAnalysisConfig;
@@ -13,9 +14,14 @@
 import org.grobid.core.utilities.counters.CntManager;
 import org.grobid.core.engines.counters.TableRejectionCounters;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import technology.tabula.*;
+import technology.tabula.extractors.BasicExtractionAlgorithm;
+
 /**
  * Class for representing a table.
  *
@@ -68,8 +74,13 @@ public String toTEI(GrobidAnalysisConfig config) {
 			XmlBuilderUtils.addCoords(descEl, LayoutTokensUtil.getCoordsString(getFullDescriptionTokens()));
 		}
 
-		Element contentEl = XmlBuilderUtils.teiElement("table");
-		contentEl.appendChild(LayoutTokensUtil.toText(getContentTokens()));
+		Element contentEl;
+		if (tabulaRes != null)
+			contentEl = tabulaResToTEI();
+		else {
+			contentEl = XmlBuilderUtils.teiElement("table");
+			contentEl.appendChild(LayoutTokensUtil.toText(getContentTokens()));
+		}
 		if ((config.getGenerateTeiCoordinates() != null) && (config.getGenerateTeiCoordinates().contains("figure"))) {
 			XmlBuilderUtils.addCoords(contentEl, LayoutTokensUtil.getCoordsStringForOneBox(getContentTokens()));
 		}
@@ -120,6 +131,54 @@ private String cleanString(String input) {
     	return input.replace("\n", " ").replace("  ", " ").trim();
     }
 
+    private String[][] tabulaRes = null;
+    
+    public void tabulaExtract(File pdfFile) throws IOException {
+    	PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
+    	ObjectExtractor objectExtractor = new ObjectExtractor(document);
+    	technology.tabula.Page page = objectExtractor.extract(getPage());
+    	technology.tabula.Page pageArea = page.getArea((float)getY(), (float)getX(), (float)(getY()+getHeight()), (float)(getX()+getWidth()));
+    	
+    	BasicExtractionAlgorithm bea = new BasicExtractionAlgorithm();
+    	technology.tabula.Table table = bea.extract(pageArea).get(0);
+    	
+    	
+    	List<List<RectangularTextContainer>> tableRows = table.getRows();
+        int maxColCount = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < tableRows.size(); i++) {
+            List<RectangularTextContainer> row = tableRows.get(i);
+            if (maxColCount < row.size()) {
+                maxColCount = row.size();
+            }
+        }
+        
+        tabulaRes = new String[tableRows.size()][maxColCount];
+        for (int i=0; i<tableRows.size(); i++) {
+            List<RectangularTextContainer> row = tableRows.get(i);
+            for (int j=0; j<row.size(); j++) {
+            	tabulaRes[i][j] = table.getCell(i, j).getText();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    public Element tabulaResToTEI() {
+    	Element tableEl = XmlBuilderUtils.teiElement("table");
+    	
+    	if (tabulaRes != null) {
+	    	for (int r=0; r<tabulaRes.length; r++) {
+	    		Element rowEl = XmlBuilderUtils.teiElement("tr");
+	    		
+	            for (int c=0; c<tabulaRes[r].length; c++) {
+	            	Element cellEl = XmlBuilderUtils.teiElement("td", tabulaRes[r][c]);
+	            	rowEl.appendChild(cellEl);
+	            }
+	            
+	            tableEl.appendChild(rowEl);
+	        }
+    	}
+    	
+    	return tableEl;
+    }
 
 	// if an extracted table passes some validations rules
 
diff --git a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/FullTextParser.java b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/FullTextParser.java
index 25e97a2c14..722b4d4e8c 100755
--- a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/FullTextParser.java
+++ b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/FullTextParser.java
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ public Document processing(DocumentSource documentSource,
 				//LOGGER.info(rese);
 				// we apply now the figure and table models based on the fulltext labeled output
 				figures = processFigures(rese, layoutTokenization.getTokenization(), doc);
-				tables = processTables(rese, layoutTokenization.getTokenization(), doc);
+				tables = processTables(rese, layoutTokenization.getTokenization(), doc, documentSource.getPdfFile());
 				equations = processEquations(rese, layoutTokenization.getTokenization(), doc);
 			} else {
 				LOGGER.debug("Fulltext model: The featured body is empty");
@@ -1776,7 +1776,8 @@ else if (label.equals("I-<figure>") || openFigure) {
      */
     private List<Table> processTables(String rese,
 									List<LayoutToken> tokenizations,
-									Document doc) {
+									Document doc,
+									File pdfFile) {
 		List<Table> results = new ArrayList<>();
 		TaggingTokenClusteror clusteror = new TaggingTokenClusteror(GrobidModels.FULLTEXT, rese, tokenizations, true);
 
@@ -1785,7 +1786,8 @@ private List<Table> processTables(String rese,
 			List<LayoutToken> tokenizationTable = cluster.concatTokens();
 			Table result = parsers.getTableParser().processing(
 					tokenizationTable,
-					cluster.getFeatureBlock()
+					cluster.getFeatureBlock(),
+					pdfFile
 			);
 
 			SortedSet<Integer> blockPtrs = new TreeSet<>();
diff --git a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/TableParser.java b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/TableParser.java
index 80dd1d69f0..d33e48031c 100644
--- a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/TableParser.java
+++ b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/engines/TableParser.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import org.grobid.core.engines.label.TaggingLabel;
 import org.grobid.core.engines.tagging.GenericTaggerUtils;
 import org.grobid.core.exceptions.GrobidException;
+import org.grobid.core.layout.BoundingBox;
 import org.grobid.core.layout.LayoutToken;
 import org.grobid.core.tokenization.TaggingTokenCluster;
 import org.grobid.core.tokenization.TaggingTokenClusteror;
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -33,7 +36,7 @@ protected TableParser() {
     /**
      * The processing here is called from the full text parser in cascade.
      */
-    public Table processing(List<LayoutToken> tokenizationTable, String featureVector) {
+    public Table processing(List<LayoutToken> tokenizationTable, String featureVector, File pdfFile) {
         String res;
         try {
             res = label(featureVector);
@@ -44,14 +47,20 @@ public Table processing(List<LayoutToken> tokenizationTable, String featureVecto
             return null;
         }
 //        List<Pair<String, String>> labeled = GenericTaggerUtils.getTokensAndLabels(res);
-        return getExtractionResult(tokenizationTable, res);
+        return getExtractionResult(tokenizationTable, res, pdfFile);
     }
 
-    private Table getExtractionResult(List<LayoutToken> tokenizations, String result) {
+    private Table getExtractionResult(List<LayoutToken> tokenizations, String result, File pdfFile) {
 //		System.out.println("-----------------");
 //		System.out.println(result);
         Table table = new Table();
-        table.setTextArea(Collections.singletonList(BoundingBoxCalculator.calculateOneBox(tokenizations, true)));
+        BoundingBox bbox = BoundingBoxCalculator.calculateOneBox(tokenizations, true);
+        table.setTextArea(Collections.singletonList(bbox));
+        table.setPage(bbox.getPage());
+        table.setX(bbox.getX());
+        table.setY(bbox.getY());
+        table.setWidth(bbox.getWidth());
+        table.setHeight(bbox.getHeight());
 
         TaggingTokenClusteror clusteror = new TaggingTokenClusteror(GrobidModels.TABLE, result, tokenizations);
         List<TaggingTokenCluster> clusters = clusteror.cluster();
@@ -86,6 +95,16 @@ private Table getExtractionResult(List<LayoutToken> tokenizations, String result
             }
 
         }
+        
+        if (pdfFile != null) {
+        	try {
+				table.tabulaExtract(pdfFile);
+			} catch (IOException e) {
+				LOGGER.error("Warning: can't extract with tabula - " + e.getMessage());
+			}
+        	
+        }
+        
         return table;
     }