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I use ABBY Fine Reader for such purpose and it suits me pretty well. Laying out the data in Excel comes later. A macro can help you there. Right now how is the output laid out in Excel at the moment?<br />
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Sid
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I use ABBY Fine Reader for such purpose and it suits me pretty well. Laying out the data in Excel comes later. A macro can help you there. Right now how is the output laid out in Excel at the moment?

Sid

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I dont have that yet. Users have to open pdf and do the data entry. &nbsp;thanks
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I dont have that yet. Users have to open pdf and do the data entry.  thanks

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In that case see this link. It will save you hours of manual entry :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.onlineocr.net/" rel="ugc">http://www.onlineocr.net/</a><br />
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Sid
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In that case see this link. It will save you hours of manual entry :)

http://www.onlineocr.net/ [http://www.onlineocr.net/]

Sid

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Can ABBY do batch files? What is the type of output files? &nbsp;thanks
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Can ABBY do batch files? What is the type of output files?  thanks

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Try <a href="http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2txt/pdf-to-excel.html" rel="ugc">www.verypdf.com/pdf2txt/pdf-to-excel.html</a>&nbsp;... it is what big organisations use for their daily processing job.
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Try www.verypdf.com/pdf2txt/pdf-to-excel.html [http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2txt/pdf-to-excel.html] ... it is what big organisations use for their daily processing job.

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the pdfs we received are image based. &nbsp;verypdf seems to work well with text based pdf. &nbsp;thanks<br />
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the pdfs we received are image based.  verypdf seems to work well with text based pdf.  thanks



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ABBY is the best OCR software as of date.<br />
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Sid
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ABBY is the best OCR software as of date.

Sid

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Why don't you download a trial version and check it out yourself ;)<br />
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Sid
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Why don't you download a trial version and check it out yourself ;)

Sid

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Hi,<br />
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We receive over 300 PDF every month. &nbsp;We have to open each one and enter into database. &nbsp;The format is like this<br />
Payment1 &nbsp; &nbsp;$100<br />
Payment2 &nbsp; &nbsp;$200<br />
Payment3 &nbsp; &nbsp;$300<br />
Payment4 &nbsp; &nbsp;$400<br />
Payment5 &nbsp; &nbsp;$500<br />
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My question i, is there a way to OCR it into EXCEL horizontally? &nbsp;So we can dump it into db in one shot? &nbsp;thanks
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Hi,

We receive over 300 PDF every month.  We have to open each one and enter into database.  The format is like this
Payment1    $100
Payment2    $200
Payment3    $300
Payment4    $400
Payment5    $500

My question i, is there a way to OCR it into EXCEL horizontally?  So we can dump it into db in one shot?  thanks

OCR to excel

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