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paulo13221146
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March 24, 2017
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Problem converting PDF to Excel

  • March 24, 2017
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I have converted a PDF to Excel using the website converter but the results in the excel file are not recognisable - see below. Is there a way to make sure the conversion results in recognisabe text and numbers. The table below is a bank statement and the columns should show date, date, idintifier, description (text). amount from left to right.

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Karl Heinz Kremer
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Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
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March 24, 2017

What you see is usually the result of a bad PDF file: The file does not contain important information that is used by Acrobat (or the online service) to map "drawings of characters" (or glyphs) back to one or more characters that can then be exported in e.g. a Word or Excel document. Specifically, the "ToUnicode" table is missing or corrupt. If you only have access to the online converter, there is nothing you can do to improve the results. With the desktop version of Acrobat, there may be a workaround: Sometimes it helps to save the PDF file as a set of high resolution (e.g. 600dpi) images, then import these images back into Acrobat, run OCR and then export to Word or Excel again.

You may want to complain to your bank about this.

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sineado95135821
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March 25, 2019

Hi -

I have adobe acrobat dc on desktop and am trying to convert pdf to excel doc--

every time i try it says "save as failed to process this document- no file was created"

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