What LaTeX is
A LaTeX table is a tabular environment: a column specification, ampersands between cells and double backslashes at the end of each row.
Academic papers, theses and anything typeset with LaTeX or written in Overleaf.
What INI is
INI is the oldest configuration format still in daily use: named sections, then key equals value lines.
Windows software, PHP, Git and a long tail of tools that never moved on.
What changes when you convert LaTeX to INI
The tabular body is read, rules are dropped, and escaped characters are unescaped. Text wrapped in textbf or emph is reduced to the text itself.
Each row becomes a section named after its first column, with one key per remaining column.
What carries over from LaTeX to INI
LaTeX records 3 things about a table that INI has no way to hold.
A line break inside a cell ends the row in INI, so line breaks are replaced rather than carried through.
INI has no header row. The column names are repeated as keys on every record instead, which is why the result is bigger on disk than the table it came from.
Anything visual in the LaTeX - weight, alignment, colour, column widths - has no counterpart in INI and is dropped. The values are what survives.
This is the direction that recovers structure: LaTeX has no table in it to read, only an arrangement that looks like one, so the rows and columns are inferred rather than read.
The identifier 007 comes out of the INI as 007. Reading it as a number would have made it 7, and an id that changes value is worse than one that stays text.
The role "Analyst, data" survives with its comma, in one cell rather than split across two. That is the first thing to check in any converted table, and the usual place a INI file goes wrong.
The quotes around Jonah "Jo" Pryce are left as a plain quote character in the INI.