PDF to Excel 31 October 2018 at 10:04AM in Techie Stuff 7 replies 851 views

Pa_Ja

Any good free tools or sites that allows multiple paged documents with Ocr functionality?
I've looked through Google but can only find subscription models.

Cornucopia

I've used this for small scale OCR...

https://www.onlineocr.net/

However, getting a well-formed spreadsheet at the end of the process is still likely to require a fair amount of manual effort.

Undervalued

Google Docs online will open a pdf (effectively OCR scanning it) and let you save it in a editable format. I don't know if their online spreadsheet will do the same? Can't see it will be very useful as it won't "see" the formulas etc. Depends on what you are trying to achieve....

WaywardDriver

If you have a recent version of MS Word then open pdf in Word, select all, copy, paste into Excel.

forgotmyname

Thought the same PDF to EXCEL, ones a document with defined pages and the other a spreadsheet. Will it actually convert to a format you can use?

WaywardDriver

forgotmyname wrote: »

Thought the same PDF to EXCEL, ones a document with defined pages and the other a spreadsheet. Will it actually convert to a format you can use?

Yes - have used on pdf bank statements - amounts convert correctly as numeric.

Pa_Ja

Tried this but word opened it as an image.
Its a scanned copy, not an original pdf copy. The converter requires ocr.

Cornucopia

If your content only exists as an image (which a PDF can contain) then, yes, OCR is required.

The link I previously provided definitely works.

Here are a couple more...

http://www.free-online-ocr.com/

https://www.newocr.com/