Converting PDF to Excel

[Morty24]

Not sure if this has been asked before, but is there any way to convert a scanned PDF to excel?

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

What's a "scanned" PDF? How is that different from a PDF?

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[Morty24]

A Scanned PDF is a document that has been scanned and saved as a PDF document

 

[SkipVought]

Is it significant to this question, that it was scanned?

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[xlbo]

google > "convert pdf to excel" = answer

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[osx99]

What you need is an OCR reader (Optical character recognition, conversion of images of text into characters). Most printers should come bundled with some type of software to do this

Failing that ABBYY PDF Transformer 2.0 is very good for what you need but costs £.

Failing that this is a possibility and free: OCRopus is a free document analysis and OCR system

http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/

 

[Lilliabeth]

If what you have will fit on a screen, you can do a print screen, paste that into MS Paint or some other graphics program, Save As a .tif then open the .tif in Microsoft Document Imaging which you almost certainly already own.

In the Tools menu are the commands to run the OCR and then the command to send to Word.

--Lilliabeth

 

[sxschech]

If you have full version of Acrobat, you can use use Document, Recognize Text Using OCR. However, it doesn't seem to always capture/convert all the items. Perhaps the current version is better. I'm using 7.

 

[Madawc]

If you can export the PFD as text, do so. Then open the text file in Word and use 'Replace' to turn spaces to tabs, ^t for Replace in Word. Then make a Word table. This can be pasted into Excel.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10