How to i write a script that makes multiple selections in a pdf and exports them to excel?

I have a large number of PDFs
Not all the PDFs contain information we need. We want to be able to automate a script that extracts certain info from the PDFs and opens them in a certain format in excel.
Acrobat allows me to make a single selection and export as excel.
How do i export multiple parts to excel from the pdfs and ensure that the resulting excel is in a format that i can use without much fixing needed (e.g. merged cells)?

This type of process can't really be done using JavaScript. You would need to read the contents of the file, word by word, decide (based on some logic) what data to extract, and then collect it and at the end export to a plain-text file. Not a simple process...

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