Converting PDF to excel using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

Report · Nov 10, 2014

I am trying to convert long but simple PDFs to excel but I keep getting an error message. I have tried disabling OCR, but nothing. Some of my files are rather large, but smaller than 100MB. Any suggestions?

Report · Nov 10, 2014

Hi marianaach,

Please make sure that you are, in fact, using Adobe Acrobat (and not Adobe Reader/ExportPDF online service). You won't run into that 100 MB file-size limit in Acrobat, like you will using the ExportPDF online service. To convert a file in Acrobat, you choose File > Save as Other > Spreadsheet > Microsoft Excel Workbook.

Please let us know how it goes.

Best,

Sara

Report · Nov 10, 2014

Thank you Sara. That is exactly what I've been doing though. Half the times

the program crashes and the other half it tells me that it was unable to

save the file. Do you have any other suggestions? I've managed to convert

small files, but starting at 15MB it just doesn't work.

Best,

Mariana

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Sara.Forsberg <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Report · Nov 11, 2014

Hi Mariana,

Please tell me more about your system. Are you on Mac OS or Windows, and what version? When Acrobat crashes, do you receive an error message?

Can you please tell me a bit more about how these PDF files were created? (All PDFs aren't created equally, so it could be that the files you're trying to convert aren't well-formed).

Best,

Sara

Report · Nov 11, 2014

Hi Sara,

I'm working on an Imac 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 running OS X 10.9.5. Sometimes

Acrobat just shuts down, sometimes it stops responding and I have to force

quit, and other times I get this message: "Save as failed to process this

document. No document was created".

I don't know exactly how the PDFs were created, as they come from another

institution. They look as if they were exported from excel though. The

thing is I have several files, all with the same structure, from the same

source, and the small ones were converted without a problem, but the large

ones simply won't. I'm attaching one of the files, perhaps you can see for

yourself something useful.

Thanks,

Mariana

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Sara.Forsberg <forums_noreply@adobe.com>