Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org?

[Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>]

Is there any kind of support (also by non-core extensions) for tables
in Org that are entirely organized along buffer columns?  Some magic
(= clever heuristics) that recognizes the following as a table with
four columns, the first three left-aligned, the last right-aligned:

        <6>                             1.0
     1  one                  some      10.0
     2  two                  boring   100.0
     3  This is a long text  column  1000.0

By "organized along buffer columns" I mean that basically any kind of
white-space should be allowed to align the columns in the buffer.

By "any kind of support" I mean:

- one-time conversion support to an Org table along the lines of C-c |

- or edit/export support of such tables w/o the need to convert them
  to an Org table first.

I tried searching but failed to find search terms that are specific
enough to find anything useful.

Thanks.