Exporting simple tables in pdf to Excel or word and maintain correct text/column flow.

Even with a black and white, clear scan at high settings, my exports to Word/Excel result are poor. Text is recognized but not in the correct sequence for editing. I find myself using the column select (Alt key) feature and exporting columns one at a time! When exporting to Excel, the contents of one cell in the pdf table ends up in 20 cells in Excel among many other misalignments. When exporting to word, it's a mess of tabs/graphics/paragraph returns...etc. I find myself selecting the text in 25 or so graphic text boxes!
Appears that many people have the same experience but I haven't seen a solution as advertised by Adobe. It appears so easy on video.
Can anyone recommend a step-by-step proven method (Win 7, Acrobat X, Office 2007, InDesign CS5.5)?
Txs!

I am not sure about what video, but my guess is that was a PDF produced from Excel or WORD with PDFMaker. In such a case, it would have tags and all that would retain all of the information you need. When you are working with a scanned document, you have no such tag info that provides layout info (like cell locations and such). There are some 3rd party products that are said to do a better job in such cases, but often cost as much as Acrobat and only do the conversion. If you can point out the video, then maybe we can discuss aspects of what you are doing compared to the video.

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