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How to create an Excel Spreadsheet from a PDF File by using A-PDF to Excel?

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Question

There is some important data in my PDF file and I want to extract the data and put it into an MS Office Excel spreadsheet. How can I do that with A-PDF to Excel?

Solution

It is very easy to create an Excel spreadsheet from a PDF file with the help of A-PDF to Excel. With just a couple of clicks, you can then extract the data from the PDF file and save it as an Office Excel spreadsheet. Below I will show you how to do this step by step:

Step 1: Add PDF File

After you start A-PDF to Excel, click "Open a PDF file" to browse PDF files in your computer and open the one whose data you want to extract.

add PDF for creating an Excel spreadsheet

Step 2: Add Table & Draw Vertical Lines

Click "Add a table to PDF" to draw a table to cover the data and content you want to extract. And then click "Draw vertical lines to table" to decide how the table is divided; you can divide the table in columns according to how the data lies.

draw table and lines on PDF page

Step 3: Apply Table Settings to Other Pages

Click the "Apply" button to apply the table settings to other pages. You can decide to apply settings to all pages, even pages only, odd pages only, landscape pages only or portrait pages only.

apply table settings to other PDF pages

Step 4: Extract to Excel

At last, click the "Extract to Excel" button to extract the data from PDF pages and save it in an Excel file.

extract PDF data and table and save as an Excel spreadsheet

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