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> > What kind of tables does it work on?  How do you recognize them from the
> pdf appearance
> > in a pdf reader?
> 
> To recognize tables in datasheets and generate symbols from these sounds
> like a hopeless task for me.
> 
> 
> Probably quite specialist to a given manufacturer, certainly.
> 
> One other route which could be fruitful is working from the package BSDL
> file given by the vendor to aid JTAG testing. Probably won't have all your
> alternative pin names, but it's potentially worth looking at.

I participated in a discussion about BSDL before and agree it would be a path. I plenty of other things so nothing have been done yet and it's not on top of my list.