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Acrobat (full version) has an export to excel function. I’ve used it before and my table data was exported correctly as each value was in an excel cell. 😊 From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matt Sherman <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 2:53 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Converting old tables in PDF to CSV External Email: Use Caution Hm, that should be doable, but an annoying amount of work. I haven't done it with tables but I have done it with bibliographic records and regex. Helps if there is a very consistent structure to the OCR. On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 1:47 PM Medina-Smith, Andrea M. (Fed) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello List, > > Has anyone had success converting tables in a PDF to CSV? These are scans > of paper from the 70s on forward. I know this isn’t a super easy > conversion, but I would think it’s not impossible either. > > Thanks, > Andrea > > -- > > Andrea Medina-Smith > Data Librarian > Information Services Office > National Institute of Standards and Technology > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F0000-0002-1217-701X&data=05%7C01%7Chaitzlm%40UCMAIL.UC.EDU%7C91ae208fd9fd4122494608da53b7446c%7Cf5222e6c5fc648eb8f0373db18203b63%7C1%7C0%7C637914343836515265%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hrrJHUMhxJJ7I4A8bd9lMVqrkuZskwuBy6MtSc0ISaY%3D&reserved=0 > > >