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Exporting to Excel

rpreiss
Registered: Jul 5 2007
Posts: 6

I have an archive of 1000 PDFs that are a combination of text and tables only (no graphics). I want to automatically scan through the PDFs extracting the tables to excel. How do you recommend that be done? The PDFs aren't tagged.
 
Thanks,
 
Rick

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

Scan the files into Acrobat, and use the option to capture the contents using OCR. Then, use the Select Tool and click the content on the page. In the popup menu, or the right-click menu, choose Export Table to Spreadsheet. The content is opened in Excel.

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