I am trying to move a PDF invoice into my Quick Book Pro 2006 account payable
file. I was told that I could do this by using Excel as a go between. Does
any one have any imput on this ?

There is no 'easy' way that I am aware of. One solution is if you have a good
program for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that can 'read' the PDF and
convert to Excel. Most examples I have seen of this tend to be a bit hit and
miss and you still need to edit most of the converted data.
If the PDF file is not protected you can usually use the text select tool
and copy this into the clipboard, then you can paste into Excel. This will
not usually paste directly into nice columns and rows - but immediately after
clicking 'paste' you should see an icon come up promting you to select past
options, use the 'text import wizard' and play around with the delimiting
options to get the best fit. (eg fixed column width or space delimited data
etc)

"Jhook" wrote:

I am trying to move a PDF invoice into my Quick Book Pro 2006 account payable
file. I was told that I could do this by using Excel as a go between. Does
any one have any imput on this ?

Peter Shore wrote:
There is no 'easy' way that I am aware of. One solution is if you have a good
program for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that can 'read' the PDF and
convert to Excel. Most examples I have seen of this tend to be a bit hit and
miss and you still need to edit most of the converted data.
If the PDF file is not protected you can usually use the text select tool
and copy this into the clipboard, then you can paste into Excel. This will
not usually paste directly into nice columns and rows - but immediately after
clicking 'paste' you should see an icon come up promting you to select past
options, use the 'text import wizard' and play around with the delimiting
options to get the best fit. (eg fixed column width or space delimited data
etc)

"Jhook" wrote:

I am trying to move a PDF invoice into my Quick Book Pro 2006 account payable
file. I was told that I could do this by using Excel as a go between. Does
any one have any imput on this ?

jhook

Would you be able to send a sample of the pdf file?

Should be simple for me to convert it for you

K




Peter Shore wrote:
There is no 'easy' way that I am aware of. One solution is if you have a good
program for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that can 'read' the PDF and
convert to Excel. Most examples I have seen of this tend to be a bit hit and
miss and you still need to edit most of the converted data.
If the PDF file is not protected you can usually use the text select tool
and copy this into the clipboard, then you can paste into Excel. This will
not usually paste directly into nice columns and rows - but immediately after
clicking 'paste' you should see an icon come up promting you to select past
options, use the 'text import wizard' and play around with the delimiting
options to get the best fit. (eg fixed column width or space delimited data
etc)

"Jhook" wrote:

I am trying to move a PDF invoice into my Quick Book Pro 2006 account payable
file. I was told that I could do this by using Excel as a go between. Does
any one have any imput on this ?

jhook

Can you send me a sample of the pdf file?

Should be easy to convert for you

Thanks,
K

Acrobat 7 Pro is very good at copying PDF into Excel.

Highlight the text, right click and open table in spreadsheet.

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Peter Shore wrote:
There is no 'easy' way that I am aware of. One solution is if you have a
good
program for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that can 'read' the PDF
and
convert to Excel. Most examples I have seen of this tend to be a bit hit
and
miss and you still need to edit most of the converted data.
If the PDF file is not protected you can usually use the text select
tool
and copy this into the clipboard, then you can paste into Excel. This
will
not usually paste directly into nice columns and rows - but immediately
after
clicking 'paste' you should see an icon come up promting you to select
past
options, use the 'text import wizard' and play around with the
delimiting
options to get the best fit. (eg fixed column width or space delimited
data
etc)

"Jhook" wrote:

I am trying to move a PDF invoice into my Quick Book Pro 2006 account
payable
file. I was told that I could do this by using Excel as a go between.
Does
any one have any imput on this ?