[TriLUG] OT: PDF to Excel

[Michael Peters]

On 03/23/2010 05:15 PM, Jeff Schornick wrote:
> If no one knows a magic tool to do this directly, I think the Unix
> philosophy is the way to go here...
>
>   (PDF to text tool) ->  sed/perl ->  CSV ->  Excel

But then you lose the "table" structure to the data.

> Anyone have any suggestions for the PDF-to-text piece?

pdftotext will do that

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Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP