Hello all,

I am looking for a good pdf converter to convert all the pdf files into
Excel or a text file (txt or prn) without losing (retaining) any structures
or formats from the original pdf file.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Please give a name of the
software, cost and where I can buy it.

Thanks.

AccessHelp wrote:
Hello all,

I am looking for a good pdf converter to convert all the pdf files into
Excel or a text file (txt or prn) without losing (retaining) any structures
or formats from the original pdf file.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Please give a name of the
software, cost and where I can buy it.

Thanks.

------------------------

It depends on what you're doing. If you mean you have a table that's been
printed to a PDF format, I find I can generally just copy/paste it into Excel
using Adobe's Reader. You may need to write some VBA code to parse it properly
into columns, or it may work as is depending on the complexity of the table.

One step up in complexity is that I use character recognition software (Abbyfine
in my case). It's capable of reading in a PDF file, and allows you to define
the columns and such and then dumps it directly into Excel properly tabled.

If you mean you have a huge PDF document full of random stuff (like a newspaper)
and want to automatically find one particular table and suck it into Excel
without manual intervention, then I have no idea how you're going to do that
without a lot of programming.

Good luck...

Bill

Bill,

Thanks for your message. I am looking for a pdf converter to convert any
pdf file without losing its structures and formats into Excel or text. The
pdf files can be anything, but mostly, they will be table-driven. I can give
you an example. Let's say I receive a checklist in pdf from someone. If I
like to use that checklist, instead of creating it from scratch in Excel, I
like to be able to convert it into Excel, so that I can use it. In most
cases, the files have a lot of pages and different format in every page
through out the file.

I have used a pdf converter from ctdeveloping.com. That one is really good,
but it can only convert into text, not into Excel.

Thanks.

"Bill Martin" wrote:

AccessHelp wrote:
Hello all,

I am looking for a good pdf converter to convert all the pdf files into
Excel or a text file (txt or prn) without losing (retaining) any structures
or formats from the original pdf file.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Please give a name of the
software, cost and where I can buy it.

Thanks.

------------------------

It depends on what you're doing. If you mean you have a table that's been
printed to a PDF format, I find I can generally just copy/paste it into Excel
using Adobe's Reader. You may need to write some VBA code to parse it properly
into columns, or it may work as is depending on the complexity of the table.

One step up in complexity is that I use character recognition software (Abbyfine
in my case). It's capable of reading in a PDF file, and allows you to define
the columns and such and then dumps it directly into Excel properly tabled.

If you mean you have a huge PDF document full of random stuff (like a newspaper)
and want to automatically find one particular table and suck it into Excel
without manual intervention, then I have no idea how you're going to do that
without a lot of programming.

Good luck...

Bill

I never used this software but I came across the website the other day...
"Monarch Pro"
It sounds like that will pull from just about any file and convert it to
just about any file type you want.
I think it runs around 500 dollars though, there maybe a light version out
there.

"AccessHelp" wrote:

Bill,

Thanks for your message. I am looking for a pdf converter to convert any
pdf file without losing its structures and formats into Excel or text. The
pdf files can be anything, but mostly, they will be table-driven. I can give
you an example. Let's say I receive a checklist in pdf from someone. If I
like to use that checklist, instead of creating it from scratch in Excel, I
like to be able to convert it into Excel, so that I can use it. In most
cases, the files have a lot of pages and different format in every page
through out the file.

I have used a pdf converter from ctdeveloping.com. That one is really good,
but it can only convert into text, not into Excel.

Thanks.

"Bill Martin" wrote:

AccessHelp wrote:
Hello all,

I am looking for a good pdf converter to convert all the pdf files into
Excel or a text file (txt or prn) without losing (retaining) any structures
or formats from the original pdf file.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Please give a name of the
software, cost and where I can buy it.

Thanks.

------------------------

It depends on what you're doing. If you mean you have a table that's been
printed to a PDF format, I find I can generally just copy/paste it into Excel
using Adobe's Reader. You may need to write some VBA code to parse it properly
into columns, or it may work as is depending on the complexity of the table.

One step up in complexity is that I use character recognition software (Abbyfine
in my case). It's capable of reading in a PDF file, and allows you to define
the columns and such and then dumps it directly into Excel properly tabled.

If you mean you have a huge PDF document full of random stuff (like a newspaper)
and want to automatically find one particular table and suck it into Excel
without manual intervention, then I have no idea how you're going to do that
without a lot of programming.

Good luck...

Bill

Hi Mariano,

Thanks for your response. Monarch is a software to extract the data from
the text files (txt, prn, and csv). You can not open an pdf file in Monarch,
and Monarch can not convert the pdf file into Excel, without converting it
into a text file.

I am currently using the Monarch 7.01 Professional, and I am a power-user of
Monarch.

Happy New Year!

"Mariano" wrote:

I never used this software but I came across the website the other day...
"Monarch Pro"
It sounds like that will pull from just about any file and convert it to
just about any file type you want.
I think it runs around 500 dollars though, there maybe a light version out
there.

"AccessHelp" wrote:

Bill,

Thanks for your message. I am looking for a pdf converter to convert any
pdf file without losing its structures and formats into Excel or text. The
pdf files can be anything, but mostly, they will be table-driven. I can give
you an example. Let's say I receive a checklist in pdf from someone. If I
like to use that checklist, instead of creating it from scratch in Excel, I
like to be able to convert it into Excel, so that I can use it. In most
cases, the files have a lot of pages and different format in every page
through out the file.

I have used a pdf converter from ctdeveloping.com. That one is really good,
but it can only convert into text, not into Excel.

Thanks.

"Bill Martin" wrote:

AccessHelp wrote:
Hello all,

I am looking for a good pdf converter to convert all the pdf files into
Excel or a text file (txt or prn) without losing (retaining) any structures
or formats from the original pdf file.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Please give a name of the
software, cost and where I can buy it.

Thanks.

------------------------

It depends on what you're doing. If you mean you have a table that's been
printed to a PDF format, I find I can generally just copy/paste it into Excel
using Adobe's Reader. You may need to write some VBA code to parse it properly
into columns, or it may work as is depending on the complexity of the table.

One step up in complexity is that I use character recognition software (Abbyfine
in my case). It's capable of reading in a PDF file, and allows you to define
the columns and such and then dumps it directly into Excel properly tabled.

If you mean you have a huge PDF document full of random stuff (like a newspaper)
and want to automatically find one particular table and suck it into Excel
without manual intervention, then I have no idea how you're going to do that
without a lot of programming.

Good luck...

Bill