ExportPDF not retaining formating when converting to Excel

Hi I just bought ExportPDF to convert these large pdf's into excel files. But whenever I convert the pdf to excel it takes all 8 distinct columns and lumps them into a single column. This would not be a problem if I could use text to columns to fix it, but unfortunately one of the columns is state names which are of course variable in length. Here is a sample of what is produced by ExportPDF. Hopefully I am doing something wrong, but it that is not the case than this is unacceptable.
I need the data from the pdf in excel format so I can manipulate and edit it. Can someone help me out?

Hi liquidandrew,
There is no setting in ExportPDF to change the output, other than choosing a language for OCR. ExportPDF does it's best to keep the converted document true to the original, so it sounds like it's maintaining the hyphens where they appear in the PDF. Could you do a quick find/replace in Word to remove the hyphens? However, you would run the risk of removing hyphens where you want them, such as in compound words.
Best,
Sara

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