Adobe Acrobat Pro is really a powerful PDF tool, it not only helps users to create PDF, but also works as a comprehensive PDF converter and allows you to convert PDF to other file formats like Word/Excel to reuse PDF content. With Adobe Acrobat Pro, you could even extract tables from a PDF file and save it into Excel spreadsheet.
Below is a simple tutorial introducing some steps to export PDF to Excel, you could follow the guide when you need to convert PDF to Excel.
Step1, open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat X.
Step2, go to File > Save As >Spreadsheet > Microsoft Excel Workbook or XML Spreadsheet 2003
Tips: If you want to extract a table in a PDF file to Excel Spreadsheet, just select the entire table with the Selection toolyou and then right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), choose Export Selection As, In the Export Selection As dialog box, choose Excel Workbook from the Save As Type or Format menu. Name the file and click Save to save PDF as Excel.
Step3, customize settings to export PDF to Excel. If your PDF file is a scanned PDF, you could run OCR in the Setttings.
Step4, export PDF to Excel. Click OK to process to export the PDF to Excel Spreadsheet.
At the end, I have to say that Adobe Acrobat Pro is really a wonderful PDF processing application, as it not just works as a PDF creator, but also allows you to export PDF to Excel and save PDF as Word. It's a bit pity that this excellent PDF tool costs too much, not affordable for most of us, so many people prefer to using a much cheaper PDF to Excel Converter to do the job to export PDF to Excel.
