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Adobe 6.0 pdf to excel

martytag
Registered: Nov 8 2007
Posts: 2

I am brand new to Adobe and I have professional 6.0. I do a lot of data analysis and work from an Oracle database. Most of my work I can get converted to excel with no problem. I have scheduled reports that come to me in pdf format and all the data is there on the sheets but I have no clue as to how to go from pdf to excel. I have looked through the help manual and apparently all my questions should be about how to go from excel to pdf. That part I figured out pretty easy. I see that Adobe 8.0 has an export to excel option but is there anything like this for 6.0? Any help would be appreciated

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 6.0.0, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Th UI changed substantially in Acrobat 7 and any information you get on Acrobat 7 and above will be different than the way you approach copying text and exporting tables from Acrobat 6.

In Acrobat 7 and above we have the Select tool. In your version of Acrobat 6 you'll find the Select Text tool. On the toolbar where you see the Select Text Tool, click the down arrow to open the drop down menu.

Click the Select Table tool and marquee the table in a PDF document. Open a context menu on the selected text and choose Save Table as or Open Table in Spreadsheet.

If you do a lot of work with tables and PDFs you might look at upgrading to Acrobat 8. There are much better options available to you.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

abvjav
Registered: Nov 10 2008
Posts: 7
You can also try http://www.reportminers.com/ to convert your reports in pdf to excel.