I do understand it would be complicated to do the above, but im a total novice at vba. Would it be easier if the extraction is from a. I could convert the pdf into. Many thanks and regards. And you have a form which makes things even harder. If this can be extracted into a DOC flie that would be ok. As you can then record and clean up a macro opening the file and gettting the information.
A text file would be the best as you don't have to contend with formatting. Many Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions I guess, I'll get in the data through. Attached is a. In the. Could not highlight the data in. However, for the benefit of those seeking to extract tabular data from a pdf document, the best results I have achieved so far for my needs are as below.
In my case, I found a vba code and tweaked it a bit not the best tweak job i must admit to do step 2, to loop thru all tables in the document and convert tables to text. Each row of data is pasted as a single cell. I copy many files this way but after files are 'processed' the clipboard gets bloated and the Reader crashes the code and the only way to free it up is to reboot.
As such, it is only good for a handful of files at a time. Clear Cells 1, 1. Select Else Worksheets. Please take the time to actually read the Forum Rules and then follow them. Always use code tags when posing code on the Forum. Thanks for another simply useless post Roy. Anyone would think it was your list Converting a pdf into a usable excel file is rarely successful even with Adobe" which was simply WRONG and led to a lot of time waste for the original poster and led others on the list down a useless path.
It also led me to comment on this list for the first and now last time. Help Forgotten Your Password? Remember Me? Results 1 to 10 of Register To Reply.
If you want something done right Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. If you are really determined someone here might be able to work out code to submit it to a website to extract the data and then download it - but most sites I see seem to not make that easy. Should I rewrite the post to get someone to help with that? Also, what is process that those site employ? Maybe find a site that looks like it would be the simplest to do this. I guess the sites will probably be using adobe pro, that would be the easy way.
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