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Jimmity Jamst
Inspiring
April 29, 2022
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Batch Convert PDFs to Excel (5000 files)

  • April 29, 2022
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Hello,

I have approx 5000s PDFs that I would like to convert to Excel. I have Acrobat Pro DC. It seems that the desktop app only allows conversion of one file at a time. Online, there seems to be a hard limit of 100 files per batch. 

 

My question is, is there a way to batch process a larger number of files (around 5000)? Related question: even if I process 100 files, I'm then unable to download all of the output Excel files at once (too large to zip) - is there a way to bulk download all files from my documents at once, or in manageable chunks as a batch job?

 

Thank you

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Correct answer try67

You mention downloading. Are you doing this online, by any chance? Acrobat can do this locally, without having to upload and download anything. It is not suited for such large operations, though.

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Jimmity Jamst
Inspiring
May 23, 2022

Thank you. In the end I was able to do it with the desktop app, using the action wizard.

New Participant
May 26, 2022

I wish to do same, where is the action wizard, can you post your answer please?

try67
try67Correct answer
Adobe Expert
April 29, 2022

You mention downloading. Are you doing this online, by any chance? Acrobat can do this locally, without having to upload and download anything. It is not suited for such large operations, though.

Jimmity Jamst
Inspiring
May 2, 2022

Thank you. I had been attempting this online as it looked like the desktop app only allowed processing a single file at a time. But I logged a ticket with support and I've been steered towards the action wizard, which looks like it will work for me.