I often run across results or recommendations in tables in PDFs. Unfortunately doing anything with PDFs apart from reading or printing them is awkward. Some common tasks such as calculating the sum or average of specific rows (e.g. what’s the average yield of 10 particular varieties of canola) would require retyping the PDF or trying to get a hold of the original table.
NitroPDF has a free online PDF-to-Excel Converter that seems to work very well. I gave it the PDF version of Guidelines for Estimating Improved & Unimproved Pasture Production Costs and it did a beautiful job of converting the tables to Excel and formatting them to look like the originals. It’s worth looking at it.
(I have no relationship financial or otherwise with NitroPDF, I just think this is very useful.)
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Hi Joel, thanks for featuring our free tool on your site — much appreciated! Glad you’ve found it useful.
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