Nowadays, many statistical files are becoming more widely available to the public on the Internet. Most often, these documents are available only in a PDF file. PDF is short for Portable Document Format, a file format created by Adobe in 1993, has many advantages: 1) It's very easy to convert almost any document into PDF while preserving the document's original format, i.e. layout, fonts, graphics etc. 2) PDF files are device-independent, that is to say, the PDF files can be viewed on any computer platform as long as the Adobe software is present. 3) PDF files are often compressed, taking up less space. 4) PDF files have good viewing quality, and have additional properties such as magnification and paginated viewing. 5) Adobe Reader is free to download.
However, the Adobe Reader does not have any editing options, nor does it have the versatility of a spreadsheet program. This makes it difficult to perform statistical analyses and manipulations on any data within a PDF document. One way to overcome this problem is to export PDF to Excel, which is a powerful spreadsheet application to deal with statistical analyses and financial data. Although the converted Excel document will not contain any macros or functions or calculation formula, you can create them yourself anyway.
What software will you use to export PDF to Excel? Actually, Adobe Acrobat have the capacity to do this, it is much more powerful than Adobe Reader, but it is also much more expensive than the free reader, costs hundreds of dollars, what's more, it is not easy to use it swimmingly and you have to spend much time on learning how to make a good use of it. So, I always try the other way, use a much cheaper and easier to use PDF conversion tool - PDF to Excel converter for help when I need to export PDF tables to Microsoft Excel.
As I know, this PDF to Excel converter has two ways to export PDF to Excel - Reserve table only and Convert whole PDF, i.e., it can fulfill your need to extract tables from PDF to Excel or convert the whole PDF to Excel spreadsheets. Anyway, you can follow this tutorial to export your PDF to Excel. Below are some tips. Before using it, you need to download the PDF converter first and install it in your PC, just double click the icon on your desktop to launch it.
Step1. Import PDF documents
You can click Add PDF(s) button to import PDF files, or add a batch of documents by drag and drop function to save time. This PDF converter allows you to add up to 200 PDF files at a time.
Step2. Choose the way to export PDF to Excel
You can extract tables from PDF to Excel with this PDF to Excel converter, or export whole PDF to Excel spreadsheets, just set advanced option, the PDF converter will do as exactly what you want.
Step3. Export PDF tables to Microsoft Excel
Click the Convert button to start to export PDF tables to Microsoft Excel spreasheets. Few seconds later, all added PDF files are converted to Excel as you need, now, you can deal with the data in Excel spreadsheets.
Tips: 1. At the bottom, you can set output folder same as the folder where your PDF files located with option Save in the same folder as source or set another foder in option Customize field as you want by clicking Browse... button.
2. You can not only export PDF to Excel, but also convert PDF to Word, copy PDF to PowerPoint, PDF to HTML and PDF to Images, etc.
