Thursday, April 9, 2009

Extract Tables from Your PDF Files into Excel

Do you need to get tabular data from a PDF file into Excel? No problem with Solid Converter® PDF to Word or Solid PDF Tools.

Extracting All Tables

Solid Converter PDF and Solid PDF Tools can recognize tables within PDF files even though your PDF doesn’t say “table data” in the file. Bordered and borderless tables are recognized.

To extract all tables from a PDF document into Microsoft Excel, do the following:

1. Launch Solid Converter PDF
2. File Open PDF and select the PDF file with your table data
3. Either click on the Extract Tables to Excel button



…or Document Extract Tables to Excel




Read more about how to Extract Tables here

Selective Extraction

If you just need to have a small part of a table in Excel then convert just what you need with Solid Converter PDF’s selective extraction tool.

1. Launch Solid Converter PDF
2. File Open PDF and select the PDF file with your table data
3. Activate the Select Area tool



4. Highlight your table
5. Right-click and choose Convert Selection to Excel






You can selectively extract tables, images, and text. Learn more here