[dba-Tech] PDF data extractor recommendation

Jim,
Finally going through my email lists (Mom died the end of January, and 
we've had a rough few months) - stumbled on this thread and wondered if 
you had found a solution.
Would the pdfedit995  tool work?  It has a tab for grabbing the text 
from the most recently created pdf file and generating a summary of the 
text.  Don't know whether things like columnar positioning remain 
intact.  Hard to beat the software995 pricing - free for most things.
Worth checking out,
Tina

jmoss111 at bellsouth.net wrote:

>Thanks James, but that sounds like too much manual labor for what I have to do. I will most likely go ahead and purchase something because I end up extracting columnar data from pdfs a couple of times a year.
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>The last time I had to extract from pdf, I had a 30 day demo of a very nice tool that let you define your columnar data by drawing around the columns and saving that as a model, kind of like Monarch. The problem was the price.... $249.00.  If extracting columns from pdf files was something I did on a daily basis, it wouldn't be a problem. Oh well, no bucks No Buck Rogers.
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