Conversion of PDF to Excel and keep formatting

I'm trying to convert a PDF file to an Excel file.

I have just run the free trial of Adobe Acrobat X Pro (version 10.1.3) and opened a newly created PDF file.

I clicked on the following: file > save as > spreadsheet > Spreadsheet XML 2003 (having Office 2003).

When I opened the new XML file, the main topics appear horizontally across the worksheet. All the amounts mentioned appear vertically in column A. We want the dollar amounts to appear in the corresponding topics. How to preserve the formatting of the PDF?

It seems that if I will not be able to easily convert a PDF to a file using Adobe Acrobat X Pro Excel as advertised. Is this true?

Not true.

The question isn't Acrobat.

It is rather the PDF file (how content source has been mastered and created the PDF file).

Use an application with tag good management.

Examples: FrameMaker, InDesign, MS Word (with PDFMaker of Acrobat), MS Word 2010 (usng MS save as PDF - XPS, PDF accessible & making use of the user interface that promotes accessible PDF creation).

None are 100% (yet) for all aspects of a power of a PDF containing the well-trained tag. However, they are (currently) "best-of-breed".

In the file creation you would control a good table. Table header Row (s) must be correctly identified.

PDF output with label Table element must be properly post-processed with Acrobat (row Span value, the Scope attribute checked attribute header cells and, possibly, attribute Headers with the ID associated with the value).

With appropriate content mastering (of the particular table), management of tags and the post-processing array element, you'd have a PDF properly 'tagged '.

The contents of the table in the PDF containing the tag correctly labeled, can be exported to Excel with pretty cool results.

Well controlled in the file creating a table that is part of a non-tagged PDF file can be exported to Excel with fairly good results most of the time.

It's all in how content is controlled:

Example (one extreme, but it expresses the point):

Use of the space bar and Tab can give the appearance of a 'table' in Word or Notepad.

As with so much "perception" is not reality.

This content is simply "body text" tricked out to look like a table.

In the PDF file that content is "body text" and no correlation with tabular data.

There are a range of OMG yuck on Spot On.

What lands in Excel will reflect where the controlled content falls within this spectrum.

Variables are which was used to create the PDF file, which has been used for tags management (if any), how the content is placed in the file to create.

PDF files that are "worse" are often those that are created by programming via a server application.

What PDFLibrary is in use (they are not all equal) and how it is used.

Be well...

Post edited by: CtDave

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