4 Replies Latest reply: Nov 11, 2014 11:41 PM by marianaach RSS

    Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

    marianaach Community Member
    marianaach Nov 10, 2014 12:29 AM

      I am trying to convert long but simple PDFs to excel but I keep getting an error message. I have tried disabling OCR, but nothing. Some of my files are rather large, but smaller than 100MB. Any suggestions?

        • 1. Re: Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
          Sara.Forsberg Employee Hosts
          Sara.Forsberg Nov 10, 2014 1:54 PM (in response to marianaach)

          Hi marianaach,

           

          Please make sure that you are, in fact, using Adobe Acrobat (and not Adobe Reader/ExportPDF online service). You won't run into that 100 MB file-size limit in Acrobat, like you will using the ExportPDF online service. To convert a file in Acrobat, you choose File > Save as Other > Spreadsheet > Microsoft Excel Workbook.

           

          Please let us know how it goes.


          Best,

          Sara

          • 2. Re: Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
            marianaach Community Member
            marianaach Nov 10, 2014 11:39 PM (in response to Sara.Forsberg)

            Thank you Sara. That is exactly what I've been doing though. Half the times

            the program crashes and the other half it tells me that it was unable to

            save the file. Do you have any other suggestions? I've managed to convert

            small files, but starting at 15MB it just doesn't work.

             

            Best,

            Mariana

             

            On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Sara.Forsberg <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

            • 3. Re: Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
              Sara.Forsberg Employee Hosts
              Sara.Forsberg Nov 11, 2014 10:33 AM (in response to marianaach)

              Hi Mariana,

               

              Please tell me more about your system. Are you on Mac OS or Windows, and what version? When Acrobat crashes, do you receive an error message?

               

              Can you please tell me a bit more about how these PDF files were created? (All PDFs aren't created equally, so it could be that the files you're trying to convert aren't well-formed).

               

              Best,

              Sara

              • 4. Re: Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
                marianaach Community Member
                marianaach Nov 11, 2014 11:41 PM (in response to Sara.Forsberg)

                Hi Sara,

                 

                I'm working on an Imac 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 running OS X 10.9.5. Sometimes

                Acrobat just shuts down, sometimes it stops responding and I have to force

                quit, and other times I get this message: "Save as failed to process this

                document. No document was created".

                 

                I don't know exactly how the PDFs were created, as they come from another

                institution. They look as if they were exported from excel though. The

                thing is I have several files, all with the same structure, from the same

                source, and the small ones were converted without a problem, but the large

                ones simply won't. I'm attaching one of the files, perhaps you can see for

                yourself something useful.

                 

                Thanks,

                Mariana

                 

                 

                 

                On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Sara.Forsberg <forums_noreply@adobe.com>