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kalos:
hello

I am starting to work with PDF files and I would like to extract a table and save it as a graphics file or as a MS Office table (not as Excel, because it has symbols, lines, etc, it is not only numerical data)

what is the best way to do this? I will incorporate it in a PowerPoint or MS Office document

I need it to be in the original quality

I also need not to use a crop tool, because I need the optimum margins, etc, is there a way to extract that table in the default way?

thanks

ha14:
Hi

Able2Extract
http://www.investintech.com/able2extract.html

cmpm:
Nitro's new free reader might do it.

http://www.nitroreader.com/

Claiming the ability to extract certain things.

Curt:
Thanks for telling about this new reader, cmpm. Nitro's free reader is surprisingly good - especially at the price! It will however not load quite as fast as the advert makes you imagine, and for what I know, it can "merely" extract text and images, not 'tables'.

ha14:
Try this FreeOCR
http://www.freeocr.net/

FreeOCR free software can recover text in the image of a printed text, but also a scanned sheet and even a PDF
this tutorial is in french but illustrated and easy to follow
http://www.pcastuces.com/pratique/bureautique/ocr/page5.htm

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