On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:12:31 +0000, in uk.d-i-y Grunff
wrote:
Phil Addison wrote:
I have some pdf files that I want to pull into excel but they have the
copy feature disabled so all I can do is save or print them. Does anyone
know of software that can extract the data? Preferably shareware or
freeware of course.
I'm loathe to try printing and ocr as that takes ages to proof read and
correct.
Have a look at
http://www.textfrompdf.com/tfpdownload.htm
That looked promising until I saw this in their FAQ
"PDF documents can be password protected by their authors to prevent
unwanted editing of their content. TEXTfromPDF honors this and therefore
does not provide a way around this protection. You will not be able to
extract these documents without providing the password(s) in the
Password window of TEXTfromPDF. You should contact the author of the
document to obtain their permission and password(s)."
Thanks anyway
Phil
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