[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Need Help PDF to Excel Conversion

Posted: 4/25/2005 2:34:35 PM EDT

I need help to convert a PDF to Excel I have tried some cheap shitty free one and it didnt work with the graph in the PDF can anyone help me out.

Thanks
Justin

Posted: 4/26/2005 6:32:13 PM EDT

[#1]

You can do this by printing from Excel and selecting Acrobat Distiller. Of course you need a full copy of Acrobat to do this.

Posted: 4/26/2005 6:41:20 PM EDT

[#2]

email it to me and I'll do it for you. [email protected]

Posted: 4/27/2005 2:23:16 PM EDT

[#3]

I would but there is about 10 of them I need to do! Can you tell me how you do it Patty?

Posted: 4/27/2005 4:27:10 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I would but there is about 10 of them I need to do! Can you tell me how you do it Patty?

Justin I have a program that does them. Patty

Posted: 4/27/2005 4:52:48 PM EDT

[#5]

You can do this by printing from Excel and selecting Acrobat Distiller

No, justinwb said he wanted to "convert a PDF to Excel." That does the opposite of what he asked for.

A good way to get data out of any proprietary format is to install a generic text printer driver. That will output text from Acrobat or any other program that can read PDF's. Then you can open the text file with Excel. Another option is to mark the text with Acrobat, copy it, then paste it into Excel. Both will get the data into Excel like you asked.z

Posted: 4/27/2005 8:02:17 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
You can do this by printing from Excel and selecting Acrobat Distiller

No, justinwb said he wanted to "convert a PDF to Excel." That does the opposite of what he asked for.

A good way to get data out of any proprietary format is to install a generic text printer driver. That will output text from Acrobat or any other program that can read PDF's. Then you can open the text file with Excel. Another option is to mark the text with Acrobat, copy it, then paste it into Excel. Both will get the data into Excel like you asked.z

I musta been drinkin......

Posted: 4/28/2005 9:24:57 AM EDT

[#7]

Most PDF files will transfer over ok. However sometimes, a PDF file is created from a scanned image of a page. In those instances, it's a graphical image and there no text to export to Excel.

Posted: 4/28/2005 4:37:30 PM EDT

[#8]

it's a graphical image and there no text to export to Excel.

I hate those. Why use a PDF when a link to a .gif will do the job better.

There is one solution. I had to convert about 150,000 documents like that from PDF to text. You can convert the PDF to an image then run OCR software on the image. That worked well, but it wouldn't be worth the trouble for a few documents.z

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