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Old 01-07-2011
Pdf to excel sheet??
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
# 2  
Old 01-07-2011
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).
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Old 01-07-2011
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.
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Old 01-07-2011
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
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