PDF to EXL 1

[johng75]

help,
company needs to scan and convert literaly thousands of documents and have them go from pdf to excel. need to know what the best possible route for getting a scanned pdf file, into an excel spread sheet. even just a txt file if that is all i can get, and go from there.

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[tgreer]

Your question is too generic for a meaningful answer.

An "Excel file" can be quite complex. A "PDF file" can contain text, images, movies, forms, etc.

If you're scanning documents to PDF, the PDF is essentially just a container for a TIFF. If you want to load a TIFF into Excel, you can do that. It's still just a TIFF, though.

If you give more details, so can we, hopefully.

What are these documents? What is the layout? What tools do you have currently, or if none, what is your budget? For example, do you have any OCR software? What programming skills do you have on staff? Why do you want to go to Excel? What features of Excel are required? What do you mean, in other words, by "go from there"?



Thomas D. Greer

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[Eggles]

Wade through this post

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?spid=223&sqid=514652&newpid=223

almost to the end and you wil see it is possible but wil be very time-consuming (but better than retyping).

 

[asksteven]

how complex about your pdf?
would you mind sending me a sample?
touchpdf@yahoo.com