Anyone Know Of Free Software Programs That Convert Pdfs To Excel?

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searcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management Harvard University Georgetown University

ANYONE KNOW OF FREE SOFTWARE PROGRAMS THAT CONVERT PDFS TO EXCEL?

I've used the PDF to MS Word table to MS Excel workaround, but am looking for free software that does the job while keeping the column structure from the PDF.  I know Microsoft has released a beta version of Power Query that pulls data from PDFs (using the "Get Data" function in MS Excel), but that's only available to "subscription" buyers of Office 365, and I'm not a subscription buyer.

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searcher Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management University of Illinois at Chicago - 11/27/2020

Pretty sure Adobe does this conversion for free. If it’s a one time thing, sign up for their free trial for the pro version

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admin Stanford University - Graduate School of Business Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University - 11/27/2020

Acrobat Pro DC will allow you to export to spreadsheet -- either Excel or XML. I'm not sure of other versions of Adobe.

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searcher DePaul University - 11/27/2020

https://www.pdftoexcel.com/

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searcher Harvard University - Harvard Business School University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 11/27/2020

https://smallpdf.com/

You can use it limited number of times, but if go incognito when you use it and delete your cookies for the site you can use repeatedly. I have used it in the past many times. The site works well and is completely free, quick and no registration required.

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searcher Columbia University - Columbia Business School University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus University of Wisconsin - Madison - 11/27/2020

zamzar..com ; 2 above. Free Adobe DC Trial.

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searcher University of California, Berkeley - 11/27/2020

http://simplypdf.com/

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INSEAD Tsinghua University - 11/28/2020

https://smallpdf.com/pdf-to-excel

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searcher Emory University - Goizueta Business School University of Florida - 11/30/2020

I have not used it in awhile, but I believe Adobe's program isn't bad (there is a free version if I recall right): https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-excel.html

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searcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management Harvard University Georgetown University - 11/30/2020

These are all great, thanks for the suggestions! ^[redacted]‌, I'm self-funded, so don't want to pay for Adobe Pro if I can avoid it, but thanks for the suggestions. Didn't know Adobe had an online version of the conversion tool, thanks ^[redacted]‌‌. And am surprised that Microsoft hasn't embedded this functionality within Excel -- they must have a gentlemen's agreement with Adobe!

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searcher IE Business School University of Nottingham - 11/30/2020

Another resource which does not have a limit to the number of conversions, check out

https://www.pdftoexcelconverter.net/

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University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business - 11/30/2020

Great resources! Thanks!

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