PDF to excel

I have a series of pdfs that I'd like to get into excel.  I am using acrobat 9 pro.  It works for the most part, except in areas when there are no cell borders.  I am wondering if there is a javascript solution of adding cell borders in the pdf.  My other thought is to go to the excel author, for the future, and give instructions on how to properly tag the excel document before it is saved into pdf.
Example below:
First, sorry about the messy row and column heads, this just makes referencing much easier, I did that part is ms paint. Next, I'm not so concerned with the data above the table ie 'Home Office ...' and 'June 30,2010'.
When I select the table (B5:K19) in Acrobat, right click and then export to excel, I have trouble.
The trouble is H5:K5.  The light blue background does not show the vertical breaks between the cells.  When the table is open in Excel, H5:K5 is show as 1 cell.
I have the same trouble with bright yellow row #18.  The pdf lacks vertical lines and Excel thinks all one cell merged across.
So, I see two solutions, create the lines using Javascript or go to the Excel author(who saves to pdf) and have her tag the document correctly.  I've asked, cell borders can not be added to the colored areas.
I am open to any other ideas that you may have and thank you for the assistance in advance
_keith

JoachimSauer wrote:
AndrewThompson64 wrote:
Apart from opening a PDF as a File and making random writes to it, just how do you 'manipulate' a PDF without first reading it?To be fair: there are programs around that can do simple operations on PDFs, such as append pages, n-up pages and so on, but are entirely unable to understand anything on a sub-page level.Huhh. That's one of the many reasons I like contributing to forums. You learn something new every day.

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