I have Scanned Image, I converted it to pdf file, the content of image are rows and columns (table), I want Extract the text from table to excel file, any Idea? any good website or tool or program can I use it
I tried to use a lot of websites to extract text, but it does not work
Do you have Microsoft Excel? If you do, then first convert the PDF to a JPEG.
And with that, go to Microsoft Excel
Create a New Document
Go to the Data Tab
Choose "Data From Picture"
Choose Picture From File
You'll see a couple of instructions. Follow them to complete the process of converting the picture to table.
You'll also have the option of correcting any inaccuracies before adding them to your spreadsheet.
That's all!
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I noticed that anytime I export from somewhere like Salesforce where the Phone = +123124141.
The data in Excel will just become =123124141 or #NAME? or some other Error spouted from Excel.
This makes data patch extremely painful and manual. Any ideas how to get around this?
When you create the file, use a different extension than .csv or .txt (these ones are interpreted by EXCEL as a green light to interpret columns as numeric/date, etc and format accordingly. Use .DAT, for example. When you open it from within EXCEL it will invoke the text import wizard, and there you should choose comma separated (or tab separated, etc, as the case maybe), and on the final screen of the wizard, choose the columns you don't want reformatted (you can choose all of them, if you like), and choose Text. Now the column values will be kept intact.
Alternatively you can first create a blank workbook/sheet, and use Data From Text to invoke the Wizard and bring the data in the same way.
If you don't want EXCEL to launch and open when you double-click on a .CSV file, without asking questions, you can remove the file-association (of CSV with EXCEL) using Windows explorer.
It is reasonably easy to develop a VBA macro to import such delimited files using 'TEXT' data types to automate what the Wizard would do.
I am exporting an .xlsx document to .csv but I during that conversion I am loosing the complete style. Column width style is loosing terribly I was using Mac OS Numbers app but If i remember it correctly same issue happened with Microsoft excel ( I do not have the windows machine to cross check that for the moment).
original excel image
Exported csv image
I was wondering whether this is an application related issue or is it something wrong in general.
Did anyone face the same issue ? I do not have idea about where to begin to solve the styling issue. Some pointer will be greatly appreciated.
I added apache poi tag because I created the original excel using apache-poi
CSV stands for "Comma Separated Value".
CSV is a text file. Basically, you can open it with Excel or with a basic text editor. It is not made for storing formatting.
If you need to deal with formatted table then you have to choose another format.
There are lots of topics about this item, but I wasn't able to find an answer to my question. I want to select a pdf file and import all the text from this file into a specific sheet, let's call it sheet2. Please note this is a new pdf file every day, so it cannot come from a specific location, but the file has to be selected every day.
Any ideas?
If you can waver the limitation of using only VBA, you could use iText (combined with Apache POI). iText is more than capable of extracting the text from a pdf file, and the apache POI library allows you to generate Office documents (such as excel workbooks).
I need to convert a pdf form that contains a column of handwritten numbers to text and populate an excel spreadsheet.
Does anyone know of a program or a solution to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I have tried programs like pdfcompressor, but its returning me random symbols. Im assuming numbers should be easier to convert than random letters.
If you have a version of Microsoft Office from XP to 2007, you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging. It is a PDF viewer-like program. Once you open your image file, you can use your mouse icon to crop and highlight sections of the image. You can then copy and paste the highlighted section into Excel using the built-in OCR software.
You'd need an OCR program (google OCR) to interpret the handwritten text/numbers. But that would then only give you a raw text or .doc file, not an excel sheet. You'd need to manually move the numbers across - might still be better than keying them in, if you're looking at a very large list.
Abbyy Finereader would be the first place to start. It has support for machine printed and hand printed OCR and comes with a nice GUI interface. You should be able to download a trial version from www.abbyy.com. It will be able to export to all sorts of formats. If you need an SDK then Kadmos from www.rerecognition.com supports hand and machine print OCR.
I made an Excel file with data on tab 2, and a chart on tab 1. This is for a web-portal where investors can download the excel document with ubber graphics and the like, but with their data.
So, the 'simple' fix in my mind is to save the Excel document as "OOXML" and just replace the data items. However, it seems that the document is encrypted (at least... not readable in notepad).
How do I get to where I need to go here?
Thanks,
Found my solution... using the Office Open XML SDK and googling / playing with it for a while.