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January 9, 2015
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I'm a "virgin" at this!! I just scanned a phone list into a computer, saved it as a PDF doc. I want to convert it into Excel doc and SAVE in Excel so I can update as necessary. Help!!

  • January 9, 2015
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I've never used this service!  I just scanned a phone list into my computer and saved it as a PDF doc.  I wanted to convert it into an Excel file to make updating easy.  Help!

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pwillener
Legend
January 11, 2015

How do you convert the PDF; using Acrobat, or the ExportPDF service?

In both cases you need to perform character recognition (OCR) in order to get an editable output.

what_____Author
Participant
January 12, 2015

Please explain................I have no idea what you are talking about!!!!

pwillener
Legend
January 13, 2015

When you scan something, the result is an image, no editable text.  This is why text inside an image must be converted into real text; using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

The way to do that is different when using Acrobat or ExportPDF; that's why I'm asking.

Participant
January 9, 2015

I have exactly the same question - how do I save the converted word or excel docs?

what_____Author
Participant
January 10, 2015

I'm beginning to think this forum is worthless -- I haven't seen an answer to any questions and sure haven't had one to mine!!

Jan

Participant
January 10, 2015

Same problem, after converting to xcel, how can I modify the contentsas xcel document?