Extracting Data from PDF to Excel

Started by craisin, February 25, 2012, 08:20:51 PM

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craisin

February 25, 2012, 08:20:51 PM
Phil,

Is it possible to extract data from a PDF into Excel format using exifTool?
If so, does that include characters (A-Z and 0-9) from within images in the PDF?

Cheers
Chris

Phil Harvey

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February 26, 2012, 08:22:07 AM
Hi Chris,

There are various techniques for getting information into Excel.  See FAQ number 12 for details.

ExifTool only extracts metadata from the main PDF document, not from embedded images.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Phil Harvey

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March 10, 2013, 10:47:31 AM
Note: The ability to extract metadata from embedded images in PDF documents was added to ExifTool 9.21.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).
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