I need to do a mail merge. Our form is in PDF format. I have my data in an Excel file. Is there an easy way to mail merge?
IF not I have to convert back to Word and do it in there.
I do not program or know how to run scripts etc. so sending me code wont help.
Thanks
Liz
In my company we use regularly PDF Mail Merger for all types of PDF forms that we have to send in bulk. We find it very easy to use.
Usage:
You will be guided through 4 steps:
Upload PDF file
Upload Excel file
In the Editor you can drag'n'drop placeholders onto the PDF
Click to start the PDF generation
Advantages:
Works with any kind of PDF file (doesn't require fillable form fields)
Many spreadsheet formats supported (Microsoft Excel, Open Office Spreadsheet, CSV, TXT etc.)
New PDF Form templates are set up very quickly
PDF Form templates can be reused with one click
No programming knowledge is required
Disadvantages:
The free plan only covers the generation of 100 documents
Screenshots:
Home Screen
Upload PDF File
Editor for drag'n'drop placeholders
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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!
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).
Can somebody help me with a code rather than asking me to refer to itextsharp and pdf.
Basically I am trying to edit an existing pdf timestamp in the first page and a date in the second page, which is in a table and its a 100 page document. I am using C# approval test to compare the two pdf's. But is fails in these two instances of date place. So could somebody help me with C# code that will read the existing pdf, edit the pdf in the same place and save the same pdf.
Thanks
I have a .pdf form I have created in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. The form will be distributed and individuals will complete the form and email me a copy at various times.
I need to get the information from the form into an Excel spreadsheet as I receive the forms back.
Is that possible?
Direct answer: "Yes"
A bit more verbose answer: There are several possibilities.
a) Use the "Merge Data Files into Spreadsheet" function, which can be found in the Forms pane in the Tools panel of Acrobat XI (and in the More… dropdown in the Prepare Forms Tool in Acrobat DC). There you specify from which files you want to extract the data, and Acrobat creates an according table.
This is quick and easy, and can process a whole batch of files, but it has the issue that you have no control over the fields you want to export and their order.
b) Use the doc.exportAsText() method on the forms; this will create a tab-delimited file, which you then can merge into your spreadsheet. This would be file per file, but you could create an Action which does run on a whole folder.
c) Use some logic to assemble a tab-delimited text, and create and then export a Data Object (which would be a tab-delimited file, as in case b). This gives you maximum control, and you can even export "calculated" data, which does not exist as such in the form, and/or have full control over the format of an exported field contents. This too is file per file, and could be turned into an Action.
is there a workaround to use the cfdocument tag to save a page/file as an excel sheet instead of a PDF file?
I already have a process set up to make pdf files and email them out and would like to give my customers the option of getting an excel file instead. It would be nice if I could reuse the code I already have instead of having to rewrite it in POI or something like that.
The type of data witihn a PDF is not usually the same type of data that makes sense for Excel. That being said, there are multiple other ways to create Excel spreadhseets.
In ColdFusion 9, it's native. Just use the cfspreadsheet. In CF8... well, it looks like you have POI. So use that. ;) Ben Nadel also has a nice wrapper for POI so you can consider that too.
The thing is - you will not be able to go from CFDOCUMENT to a spreadsheet since it is really a different type of data.
In ColdFusion 9 use the cfspreadsheet tag and/or spreadsheet functions. That creates a real Excel file.
In ColdFusion 8 and below the easiest way is to use the html table > Excel hack/trick. Put your data in a standard html table, save them in a file with a .xls extension and email them to your users. When the user opens the file Excel will convert the html table to an Excel spreadsheet. You could also send the content to the browser by adding at the top of the page. With this method make sure that you are only sending an html table for best results.