Re: Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?

From: Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:19:43 -0600
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> I'm looking for a way to pull 29 pages of pdf tables into excel so I can
> munge the data into an excel project and all my free trials so far have
> only converted a few pages at a time.


copy and paste?

If it needs to be somewhat automated

pdftotext -> some cut & paste / sed / regex -> open in excel?

You might need to fiddle with the pdftotext settings, but I've been
pretty successful with that before doing something else.

Jon G.
Received on Wed Dec 14 2011 - 15:20:56 EST