A question posed to me...need answer

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Robert W

Greetings,

I was posed a question the other day of which the answer I am not quite
sure. Is there a way to take information from an Adobe PDF file and export
it to an Excel spreadsheet? If you have any idea of how it can be done, I
would appreciate the reply.

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Thank you for your time and attention to this matter,

Robert Wisian Jr.
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512-589-2805
 
Hi Robert
problem is that a PDF file is intended to be the 'end stage' of a
document. So it's not designed to extract/export the text within.

there are some solutions available (try searching google for 'extrac
text pdf'). One commercial tool (I haven't tested it though) is
PDF2TXT (http://www.verypdf.com/)

Best way would be to ask the creator of the PDF file to send you the
file in the original format
 
Thanks Frank,

I had assumed as much. Although I was not aware of there being software out
there that could possibly extract information to Text. This may work out
just as well.

Robert W.
 
The free Adobe Reader 6 allows you to select text within the document, and then
copy it to the clipboard.
 
See PDF and Excel
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/pdf.htm

Selecting text with the free Reader is a bit tricky you must
do one column at a time. Other solutions involve converting
to HTML -- there are free programs to create PDF and work
PDF files (see the web page).


Ken Wright said:
The free Adobe Reader 6 allows you to select text within the document, and then
copy it to the clipboard.
Frank Kabel said:
[clipped 3 suggestions, including getting text version from the author]

Robert W wrote:
was posed a question the other day of which the answer I am not
quite sure. Is there a way to take information from an Adobe PDF
file and export it to an Excel spreadsheet? If you have any idea of
how it can be done, I would appreciate the reply.
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