PDF to Excel

[wmorrison49]

What is the easiest way to take a table in a PDF and put it into Excel format? I need to automate a report from a PDF table and manually entering the numbers into Excel is doable size-wise but is dangerous because the likelihood of an error is pretty high. All I have is Adobe Reader 8 and Excel 2007.

Thanks for your help, hopefully this is doable.

[dominicb]

Good evening wmorrison49

Thanks for your help, hopefully this is doable.

Not with what you've got, unless you want to copy the whole table and paste it into Excel and try and sort it out from there ...

There are more eloquent solutions out there but I've never seen a free one (doesn't mean they don't exist). Have a look here for what Google suggests.

HTH

DominicB

[martindwilson]

free conversion at
http://www.zamzar.com/
will convert pdf to
doc - Microsoft Word Document
html - Hypertext Markup Language
odt - OpenDocument Text Document
pcx - Paintbrush Bitmap Image
png - Portable Network Graphic
ps - Postscript document
rtf - Rich Text Format
txt - Text document
perhaps rtf then import to excel?
worth a stab

[wmorrison49]

Seems like a good site, but how long does it take them to email the converted file? It's been about 20 minutes and haven't gotten anything. Is that just their way of trying to get you to join?

[martindwilson]

didnt take all that long i think it depends on site usage, last time i did it late night and it only took 5 minutes

[wmorrison49]

It sort of worked for the first column but that mashed everything up into a picture. Oh well, it was worth a shot. Thanks.

[JChandler22]

On a related note...

I can't export an excel file as a PDF without a separate converter, can I?

[martindwilson]

apparently you can do pdf to excel via word.
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/tips/pdf2excel.htm

[digita]

apparently you can do pdf to excel via word.
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/tips/pdf2excel.htm

The suggested method works well when copying a table of numbers without any text. Thanks for sharing.

[Mr Okebab]

What is the easiest way to take a table in a PDF and put it into Excel format? I need to automate a report from a PDF table and manually entering the numbers into Excel is doable size-wise but is dangerous because the likelihood of an error is pretty high. All I have is Adobe Reader 8 and Excel 2007.

Thanks for your help, hopefully this is doable.

You can find here

Cheer!