0 Replies Latest reply: May 10, 2012 4:35 PM by browniebodrum RSS

    Ways to extract text/data from a pdf

    browniebodrum Community Member

      I have just been given five large boxes of documents which are old work orders which include (in the same position on every page) a customer's name, address, tel etc.  I'm pretty adept at scanning stuff to pdf using Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro (version 9 5 1 283) but I don't know how (if it's even possible) to batch scan just that part of the page which contains the customer data and save it to Excel or csv or similar.  I know I could highlight the required text on each page and copy and paste it into Excel but is there a more elegant solution?  To create the pdf, I can scan using our office Epson all-in-one (although it's on the other side of the office) or a Neatdesk Scanner I'm trying out.  The latter scans the pages quickly but if I set the Neat software to treat the document as a contact card, it only picks up our company address from the top of the page and ignores everything else ;-)  I'm running Windows 7.