When converting a PDF to an excel file, the format converts but none of the wording comes across

When converting a PDF file to an excel file, the format converts but none of the wording comes across

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Converting A PDF to an Excel File

I recently purchased a list that has something along the lines of 1600 pages of data. When I purchased it, I was told it would be in an Excel spreadsheet I could manipulate and work with. Instead, it came in a PDF.
Is there anyway I can convert that PDF to an Excel file? I have been looking into third party software, does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks.

You can try saving the entire file as an Excel spreadsheet (in Acrobat X it's under File - Save As - Spreadsheet), or you can select parts of the text (using the Text Selection Tool), and then right-clicking it and exporting it or copying it as a table, if that option appears.

How do I convert a pdf to an excel file

how do I convert a pdf to an excel file

Hi blondie196398,
You can use ExportPDF (or Adobe PDF Pack to do that). Please see Getting Started with ExportPDF | Adobe Community - Adobe Forums.
If you have additional questions, please let us know!
Best,
Sara

Trying to convert a pdf to an excel file

whilst trying to convert a pdf file to editteble excel a window popped up saying an error occurred while trying to access the service....

Reader cannot convert files to PDF (this is the Reader forum).
You'll want to ask in a forum for the software you are using to convert (could be ADobe Acrobat or could be Microsoft Excel's built in convertor).

I select my Ipad under devices in itunes, go to apps that support file sharing, select kindle but none of the kindle book files on my ipad appear under kindle documents

I want to copy books I've purchased for Nook and for Kindle from my Ipad to my laptop. In Itunes I select the Ipad under devices, select apps at the top of the screen and scroll to file sharing apps. When I select the kindle app or the nook app nothing appears under the documents window.

You can't do it via File Sharing, those two stores don't support the copying of your Kindle/Nook purchases off their apps via file sharing.
If you want your Kindle book on your laptop then you could download the Kindle app from Amazon and download the books directly in it : Kindle apps.
I don't think that Nook have a PC/Mac app

I had to replace the hardrive in my computer, the old drive is in the computer and accessable, I've reinstalled FF and need to get the old bookmarks to work. The last backup file has been imported but none of the links work. How do I get them to work?

Umm... don't know what more details you would want, thats pretty clear I think.

See:
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_places-database-file

How do I save a PDF as an excel file when the PDF is horizontal. Adobe tries to rotate the page, but the data is entered in an horizontal format.

How do I save a PDF as an excel file when the PDF is horizontal. Adobe tries to rotate the page, but the data is entered in an horizontal format.

Thanks for the quick reply. I figured out how to get the desired results by using tagging. For anyone who may reference this post in the future, I went to "Customize" in the top right corner of Adobe, then selected "Create new tool set...", looked under "accessiblity and found the "tag" option. Hit ok, tag is added to the toolbar. Then I highlighted the dataset in the PDF that was relevant to the output format, then clicked "tag", saved as spreadsheet. Sorry I can't provide more details on how tagging works or if there's a more elegant solution available, but I'm sure one's out there.

Converting Election PDF's to Excel;

When converting several different election PDF's to Excel, the conversion does not come out correctly. Individual rows in the PDF's are grouped together as sets of three in the corresponding Excel file. It is very difficult to work with the resulting Excel file.
For example try converting this PDF election file: http://www.acgov.org/rov/current.htm
The result in Excel becomes this: (note how three rows are gouped in each cell)
200200 - Election Day Reporting
200300 - Vote by Mail Reporting
200300 - Election Day Reporting
715
589
589
256
317
168
35.80
53.82
28.52
227
283
148
4
2
5
1
1
0
19
23
13
2
6
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
200600 - Vote by Mail Reporting
200600 - Election Day Reporting
200700 - Vote by Mail Reporting
684
684
671
353
220
347
51.61
32.16
51.71
312
186
305
13
7
12
1
0
1
21
23
25
2
2
1
1
1
2
2
0
1
1
0
0
200700 - Election Day Reporting
200800 - Vote by Mail Reporting
200800 - Election Day Reporting
671
617
617
199
333
188
29.66
53.97
30.47
185
302
170
1
0
7
0
0
0
9
25
6
1
4
4
2
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
I have an Adobe account and used the online converter. I also had problem converting such files with Adobe Acrobat Pro XI.
Are there any options or other trick that can be used to convert such files?
Thanks

Short response:
"You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear."
Expanded response:
Just looked at "sovc2012-11-06.pdf".
From looking at the PDF and at the content exported to PDF -
The Excel file has multiple rows in a single Excel row.
re: (note how three rows are grouped in each cell)
Root cause for export content needing cleanup = the PDF is not a tagged PDF.
Viewing the content one "sees" and extrapolates the intended logical hierarchy.
However the PDF content has no logical hierarchy imposed as it is not a well-formed tagged PDF.
("well-formed" as defined by ISO 14289-1, the ISO standard for PDF/UA).
Export needs the content's logical hierarchy to be known.
When this is not present heuristics are used. How effective this is is dictated on how the content was created and processed out to PDF.
The PDF I viewed is intended to represent tabular data.
That is not how the content in the PDF was created/painted.
If you have Acrobat Pro open the PDF then open the Content Panel.
Ignore the "Path" entries.
Select a "Text:" entry.
From the Panel's Options menu select the "Highlight" choice.
Now move down, selecting "Text:" entries for a given page.
Observe how what is highlighted bounce about different locations on the page.
Whatever application was used to feed Distiller (which produced the PDF) did not provide requisite logical hierarchy.
The page bounce I mentioned displays the order in which textual content was painted to the PDF page.
A consequence of how the PDF source content was mastered and how this was processed to PDF is that what we see/know to be, logically, discrete rows gets bundled during export and placed into a single row.
This would not occur had the PDF content been created as proper tabular data with correct application of the PDF <Table> element and this element's child elements/tags.
If this PDF had been mastered properly and appropriate tag management used the tagged output PDF would've had a well-formed <Table> element with proper child elements.
An export of this to Excel would've required little to no cleanup in the Excel file.
Unfortunately you do not have the "well-formed tagged PDF".
Consequently ExportPDF or Acrobat export is hampered.
n.b., manually tagging to provide a proper <Table> is, typically, not practicable.
For this particular content it'd be a waste of life-minutes.
Unfortunately, you'll have to perform manual cleanup of the content exported to Excel to get where you want to be.
As good as ExportPDF and Acrobat export are they are constrained by what is provided as input.
It's unfortunate that Alameda did not provide well-formed tagged PDF on it's publicly facing web site.
Consequently they are not accessible to many (i.e., Section 508 accessibility), they are not fully supportive of "re-purpose" via export, they are not fully supportive of use on mobile devices.
Disappointing because with Acrobat Pro (and perhaps some ancillary supporting tools) it is not so difficult to provide well-formed tagged PDF.
Be well...

Im trying to convert a PDF into an excel document and I keep getting an error message that reads "An error has occurred while trying to access the service". WHat am I doing wrong?

Im trying to convert a PDF into an excel document and I keep getting an error message that reads "An error has occurred while trying to access the service". WHat am I doing wrong?

it seems my subscription had expired so I signed up again.. It was still having trouble so I repeated the sign up process again.. Then it worked perfectly.. Unfortunately, I think I just subscribed twice and need to cancel one of them. Ugh. Such a pain when I'm trying to get this project completed. I'll be canceling at least one of the subscriptions in the morning. Adobe is not my favorite company right now. None of this was intuitive. And trying to get help was an absolute waste of an hour.
Regards,
Nathaniel
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Having issues Creating a PDF from an Excel file

When creating PDFs from an Excel file using the Adobe PDF printer, I sometimes run into an issue where the PDF ends up shrinking what's on the document and distorting the image. I have examined all Print Settings and can't find a difference between any of the margin settings, paper size, etc. Once I go to print to Adobe PDF, it just changes the way the whole document looks and is spaced.
To work around the issue, I use Microsoft's built in Save As PDF feature, but that's only works some of the time. I would like to use the Acrobat software so that I can also edit the document immediately without having to re-open it.

Be sure Adobe PDF is selected as the printer in the print menu. Then do a print preview. It it looks wrong then, it is likely an Excel format issue.

I just purchased Adobe Acrobat in order to convert a pdf to an excel program but it appears that it will only convert to Word, not excel? Am I doing something wrong or should I cancel my subscription?

I just purchased Adobe Acrobat in order to convert a pdf to an excel program but it appears that it will only convert to Word, not excel? Am I doing something wrong or should I cancel my subscription?

What happens when you convert to excel?

Can i convert a pdf to an exel file using x

can i convert a pdf to an exel file using x

Please try the below mentioned steps:
Click File
Save As> Spreadsheet
Microsoft Excel Workbook
~Pranav

Hi, i'm new using numbers, and when I try to open a excel file don't let me do it, instead appears a box whit a error and close app, any help?

Hi, i'm new using numbers, and when I try to open a excel file don't let me do it, instead appears a box whit a error and close app, any help?

What does the error say?
A couple of thoughts: the file is corrupted or is password-protected. Corruption is more likely to cause Numbers to crash & Numbers cannot open password-protected Excel files. Try using one of the free Office clones & see what happens.

Can you batch save as pdf's to excel files

I was wondering if there was a way of batch saving a number of PDF documents to EXCEL files so then we can collate and graph the data from there.

Hi Chris ,
I would request you to refer the following document that explains how to batch save files .
http://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-batch-export-pdfs-to-other-filetypes-in-adobe-acrobat/
See if that solves your purposes and fixes the issue for you .
Regards
Sukrit Dhingra

Converting java output to a excel file

I am storing the datas retrived from a file in JTable. now i need these data to be exported to an excel file. how will i do that

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