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Acrobat X allows to save a PDF document as an Excel spread sheet. You can download a 30 day eval version to see if that would fit your needs. If that works, we can work on automation. 
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Acrobat X allows to save a PDF document as an Excel spread sheet. You can download a 30 day eval version to see if that would fit your needs. If that works, we can work on automation.

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Thanks for the great recommendations!<br />
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A-PDF text works like a charm, but I have no idea where to start in order to write a script to open the program and run it in order to convert the file. do you think you can provide any insight into that?<br />
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Thanks so much!
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Thanks for the great recommendations!

A-PDF text works like a charm, but I have no idea where to start in order to write a script to open the program and run it in order to convert the file. do you think you can provide any insight into that?

Thanks so much!

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Sorry, I am not familiar with A-PDF. 
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The command line version is what is needed to script. But it is not free.$35. See the web page link to batch examples.<br />
Ill see if there are other free options
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The command line version is what is needed to script. But it is not free.$35. See the web page link to batch examples.
Ill see if there are other free options

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like the question states, I need to create a script in order to open 1 or more pdf files, then select all the contents, then paste it into new sheets in excel. i don't know what language would be the best to accomplish this so I need some ideas. <br />
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Thanks!
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like the question states, I need to create a script in order to open 1 or more pdf files, then select all the contents, then paste it into new sheets in excel. i don't know what language would be the best to accomplish this so I need some ideas. 

Thanks!

Script in order to open a pdf file, select all, copy, then paste into a new excel sheet?

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

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VB Script

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