Convert PDF (.pdf) format to Excel (.xls)

[fpalero]

Hi,

Good day!

Anyone can help on how to convert PDF (.pdf) file to Excel file (.xls).
Please see attached file pdf format.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
FPalero

 

[ChrisHirst]

Unix/Linux does not support Excel worksheet as a native format so no direct conversion is practical.

You could probably use PDFEdit to output as text then maybe use OpenOffice or LibreOffice to import the text file.

Chris.

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[fpalero]

Hi Cris,

I try the command below using Centos 6.5; but given me the wrong details.

# /usr/bin/pdftotext -layout file.pdf file.txt

Cooperativa Tilza S.C. de A.P. de R.L. de 13 de septiembre de
Tilzapotla, Morelos
C.V. 2013
Cooperativa De Fomento Regional S.C. de 13 de septiembre de
Mérida, Yucatán
A.P. de R.L. de C.V. 2013
Cooperativa Sofic, S.C. de A.P. de R.L. de 06 de septiembre de
Oaxaca, Oax
C.V.- 2013
05 de septiembre de
Caja Popular Independencia, S.C.L.- Leon, Gto
2013
=================================================================================================

I need an output like below; with tab delimited

Cooperativa Tilza S.C. de A.P. de R.L. de C.V. Tilzapotla, Morelos 13 de septiembre de 2013
Cooperativa De Fomento Regional S.C. de A.P. de R.L. de C.V. Mérida, Yucatán 13 de septiembre de 2013
Cooperativa Sofic, S.C. de A.P. de R.L. de C.V.- Oaxaca, Oax 06 de septiembre de 2013
Caja Popular Independencia, S.C.L.- Leon, Gto 05 de septiembre de 2013

Regards,
FPalero

 

[feherke]

Hi

Unless some values contain line wraps ( so in [tt]pdftotext[/tt] appear on multiple lines ), you can pipe it for example to [tt]sed[/tt] :

/usr/bin/pdftotext -layout file.pdf file.txt [highlight]| sed 'N;N;y/\n/\t/'[/highlight]

Feherke.
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