Comments on: Convert PDF to Excel

By: concerned blogger

concerned blogger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:25:51 +0000

There is surely no free lunch!! Or has everyone already forgotten that? Any information that you upload to servers is stored on their and at the discretion of the company to use or do as they so please. Please be aware of that prior to uploading your pdf and hoping to convert it excel for !Free!! Especially if you are uploading project estimates, reports, bank statements, etc. I would in information consulting with a Fortune 100 company and hence bringing this gross invasion of privacy to unsuspecting customers. Forewarned is forearmed.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:30:14 +0000

Query: I tried http://www.pdftoexcelconverter.net/ and was also impressed with the accuracy of the result. But I ended up with a different problem, The PDF was a long, multi-page (over 50pp) document. And the result came back as a multi-worksheet XLS file . . . rather than a single worksheet. I know there are workarounds (“consolidate data” and others, none of which is great) for combining multiple worksheets into a single worksheet. But the simple fix would be to create a single XLS worksheet in the first place. any suggestions? http://www.pdftoexcelconverter.net/ takes me straight to the converer: I don’t see any settings nor do I see any support link.

By: Jan Karel Pieterse

Jan Karel Pieterse — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:55:48 +0000

Of course there is no need to TTC all rows in one go

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:19:38 +0000

Hi Dick. My suggestion of using OneNote was really only in the case when someone scans a report and the file becomes a picture. I take it in your test that this was not the case? i.e. items were stored as text, in PDF format?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:16:58 +0000

Editing PDFs is easy if you have the right software. I use Smart PDF Converter because it is the most accurate one, and it’s very easy to use. http://www.pdftodocconverterpro.com

By: João Pinto

João Pinto — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:56:14 +0000

I’ve tested PDF2XL and it worked great. Here’s my review:

http://www.excel-user.com/2010/11/pdf-to-excel.html

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:52:01 +0000

Yes, I think TTC would be OK for that. TTC can make things worse, like if the row headers have spaces in them. Speaking of that, FoxIt Reader has a View - Text Reader menu item. When I use that, copy and paste, and TTC, I get this. Not bad.

By: Jan Karel Pieterse

Jan Karel Pieterse — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:31:53 +0000

The onenote one doesn’t look that bad, a text-to-columns action fixes most of the problems, does it not?