# Guide: Tabular Data

To parse documents that mainly contain tables, or to achieve higher accuracy when extracting data from tables with complex layouts (i.e: tables with many empty rows, or tables with multiple rows or columns merged together), we recommend setting `tabularData` to `true`

e.g:

<figure><img src="/files/eQR1QLbIJibjRmBrXmxf" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Schema:

```
{
   shareholders: {
      name: string; // name of the shareholder
      common: string | null; // number of common shares the shareholder owns,
      null if not available
  }[]
}
```

Response:

```
[
    {
        "pageRange": "1",
        "extraction": {
            "shareholders": [
                {
                    "name": "Founder A",
                    "common": "250,000"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Founder B",
                    "common": "150,000"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Founder C",
                    "common": "80,000"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Founder D",
                    "common": "70,000"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Employee Shares Option Pool",
                    "common": "100,000"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Investors per stage",
                    "common": null
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]
```


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