Repeat the process with the vertical line hitting the other word.
Now, in the Custom Excel window hover the mouse cursor over the vertical line which hits the word “Outstanding”, press the left mouse button and slightly drag the line to the left until it’s in the appropriate position. Once you’ve opened the PDF select the part of the document you want to convert, click on the Excel button and opt for Custom conversion.
The first thing you need to do, assuming that you have Able2Extract already installed on your PC, if not you can get a free trial here, is to run the program and open the PDF file you want to convert to Excel. Just follow the steps below or watch the short video tutorial at the end. Here’s how you can solve this prior to the conversion and ensure that you get the most accurate table extraction. You get how tedious it can be to fix multiple issues like this on a day-to-day basis. Notice how the words “ Outstanding ” (for both 20) in the first table header are not placed in the appropriate columns. If you perform a regular PDF to Excel conversion on a complex PDF like this one you’ll get some misplaced words that are not located where you would expect them to be. Let’s take a look at the PDF example below. Follow the tutorial below and learn how to fix misplaced column words & numbers prior to the conversion. Here is where Able2Extract’s custom PDF to Excel feature comes into play. We’ll show you a neat trick that will allow you to get the most accurate output every single time.īonus tip 1 : Do you experience other formatting issues when converting PDF to Excel? Learn how Able2Extract can fix all of them here.
If you’re having text misplacement troubles after performing the PDF to Excel conversion yourself, we’ve got some good news. However, there are some stubborn PDFs that just won’t give up that easily leaving you with formatting issues such as misplaced column content. In most cases, the Automatic conversion feature will do the trick. Furthermore, chances that you’re dealing with a tagged PDF are really slim, to say the least.īottom line, you need to accept the fact that you won’t get an accurate PDF to Excel conversion, right? Wrong! We’ll show you how to save yourself from having to clean up hundreds of misaligned and poorly formatted rows and columns as a result of the poor conversion.Īble2Extract can help you get the PDF to Excel conversion that requires minimal clean up if any. Why? Because PDFs don’t contain formatting or rows & columns unless they’re tagged. PDF to Excel conversion is probably the most problematic conversion of them all.
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