Pdf to excel sheet??

Carlton · January 7, 2011, 3:11am

Hi everyone,

I want a shellscript code that takes an pdf as input and returns the data in the pdf into an excel sheet...

Thanks,
C10

gc_sw · January 7, 2011, 3:54am

you cannot do it with such a shellcode. it is not an pdf-to-excel converter. instead, state an input of text and desired output (seperated with tab).

chakrapani · January 7, 2011, 4:01am

What OS, scripting language you plan to use

with Perl you could use CAM::PDF module to extract... (works with Windows and Linux)

in Linux (I use ubuntu) there are many options like Ghostscript and pdftotext etc ...

in Windows you will find lot of pre-written tools.

Carlton · January 7, 2011, 6:44am

I use redhat.I was trying to automate the work of entering the data in pdf to excel sheet..so want to know clearly how i can do that??? Can someone explain bit elaborately.

Thanks,
Carlton