Exporting an Pdf file to Excell while retaining the structure

Hi
I have a bunch of archival inventories on which I ran OCR. When trying to export them as excell documents the structure was lost.
The structure is always the same and I am wondering wether there is a script I could write and run before the export in order to retain the structure.
Or for instance could I create a structures excell document and make the export match it? I did try the auto export with Acrobat Pro X1 and it is a disaster with such documents I am pretty sure it works well in other instances.
As I am looking for specific type of archival materials (inventories, wills, sales..) I need to be able to count them and retrieve the info attached to them in the inventory.
Typically an inventory line would be as follow
Calendro,            Francisco                                June 8,1780               P-400   being the page number in the actual notarial book
                              by Pedro Portal
                              Sale of Property
Thanks

I would suggest that there may be something in JavaScript that would help. However, for an individual file you can use the alt key during selection to select a table. There are also some options to try to recognize a table, but it works better if it is tagged -- not something you get from a scan.
I just did OCR to an image of an excel sheet. I was not able to save as tables in Excel with a message that no table could be found. This is where the tags would come in. I tried adding tags (in AA9 this is under Advanced>Accessibility), but it did not help.
I was able to select each column with the Select Text and Images tool. To select a column, hold down the alt key as you use the cursor for selection. You can copy the column to a spread sheet and repeat it for each column. This is cumbersome, but does the job. It may be that you can you JavaScript to select text in a window and copy it to an Excel file. I am going beyond my skill set, but suggestion what might be possible. In the meantime, you can work with the individual files.
Good luck.

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