diff --git a/spacy_layout/layout.py b/spacy_layout/layout.py
index 6e0467b..b865faa 100644
--- a/spacy_layout/layout.py
+++ b/spacy_layout/layout.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 
 TABLE_PLACEHOLDER = "TABLE"
+TABLE_ITEM_LABELS = [DocItemLabel.TABLE, DocItemLabel.DOCUMENT_INDEX]
 
 # Register msgpack encoders and decoders for custom types
 srsly.msgpack_encoders.register("spacy-layout.dataclass", func=encode_obj)
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ def _texts_to_doc(
             span = Span(doc, start=start, end=end, label=item.label, span_id=i)
             layout = self._get_span_layout(item, pages)
             span._.set(self.attrs.span_layout, layout)
-            if item.label == DocItemLabel.TABLE:
+            if item.label in TABLE_ITEM_LABELS:
                 span._.set(self.attrs.span_data, item.export_to_dataframe())
             spans.append(span)
         doc.spans[self.attrs.span_group] = SpanGroup(
@@ -190,5 +191,5 @@ def get_tables(self, doc: Doc) -> list[Span]:
         return [
             span
             for span in doc.spans[self.attrs.span_group]
-            if span.label_ == DocItemLabel.TABLE
+            if span.label_ in TABLE_ITEM_LABELS
         ]
diff --git a/tests/data/table_document_index.pdf b/tests/data/table_document_index.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdfa135
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/data/table_document_index.pdf differ
diff --git a/tests/test_general.py b/tests/test_general.py
index 8a06311..e7e5e5a 100644
--- a/tests/test_general.py
+++ b/tests/test_general.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from pandas import DataFrame
 from pandas.testing import assert_frame_equal
 from spacy.tokens import DocBin
+import pandas as pd
 
 from spacy_layout import spaCyLayout
 from spacy_layout.layout import TABLE_PLACEHOLDER, get_bounding_box
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@
 DOCX_SIMPLE = Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "simple.docx"
 PDF_SIMPLE_BYTES = PDF_SIMPLE.open("rb").read()
 PDF_TABLE = Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "table.pdf"
+PDF_INDEX = Path(__file__).parent / "data" / "table_document_index.pdf"
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -101,6 +103,23 @@ def test_table(nlp):
     assert markdown in doc._.get(layout.attrs.doc_markdown)
 
 
+def test_table_index(nlp):
+    layout = spaCyLayout(nlp)
+    doc = layout(PDF_INDEX)
+    assert len(doc._.get(layout.attrs.doc_tables)) == 3
+    table = doc._.get(layout.attrs.doc_tables)[0]
+    assert table.text == TABLE_PLACEHOLDER
+    assert table.label_ == DocItemLabel.DOCUMENT_INDEX.value
+
+    # Check that each document_index table has a dataframe
+    document_index_tables = [span for span in doc._.get(
+        layout.attrs.doc_tables) if span.label_ == DocItemLabel.DOCUMENT_INDEX.value]
+    for table in document_index_tables:
+        assert table._.data is not None, "Table data not available"
+        assert isinstance(
+            table._.data, pd.DataFrame), "Table data is not a DataFrame"
+
+
 def test_table_placeholder(nlp):
     def display_table(df):
         return f"Table with columns: {', '.join(df.columns.tolist())}"