[dba-Tech] PDF data extractor recommendation

 Tina,

I never found anything really suitable, I ended up using ABBYY PDF
transformer. I got a text report but formatting was not maintained so I
couldn't use the files for extraction with Monarch without manual editing. I
will try the pdfedit995 and let you know how it turns out.

When I lost my dad several years ago, it was some really tough going for me
for quite some time, so I know where you are coming from. Things will get
better, but you never stop missing them, or wishing that you could talk to
them.

Thanks,

Jim

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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.
>
>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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