Convert pdf (tabular format information) to excel

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Sam

I would like to convert a pdf file to excel. The data is
in the tabular format. I have adobe reader 6.0. Do I need
a software to do this conversion? Is it available for
free? Thanks
 
M

Mike A

I would like to convert a pdf file to excel. The data is
in the tabular format. I have adobe reader 6.0. Do I need
a software to do this conversion? Is it available for
free? Thanks
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If the security settings of the PDF file allow it, you could try copy
and paste.


Mike Argy
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Harlan Grove

Mike A said:
If the security settings of the PDF file allow it, you could try copy
and paste.
Click to expand...

There are command line PDF tools that ignore PDF security settings. Simtel
has an old MS-DOS version which I use.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/51612.html

This chokes on some types of complex layouts, but it's geared to PDF 2.0 and
ingores all the 'security' that's been added to more recent PDF formats.
Just another example of laughable document-level security. If a binary file
isn't encrypted be a heavy-duty encryption algorithm, it's open and
available to anyone with moderate hacking skills. You'd think Adobe would be
embarassed by the weakness of its PDF security.

The results are text files which have space delimited formatted text that
looks mostly like what any PDF reader would show. Still some work to parse
once the files are opened in Excel, but not a bad deal.
 
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Ben

Try this web site: http://www.ebcsimon.com.

They offer free online PDF converter to RTF/WORD. You can then save the
RTF as text (tabular format) and import it to Excel.

I you are going to do it often, you can also ask them to create such
service for you. They do it free!

-Ben
 
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