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Can anyone recommend software (free if possible) that will convert PDF's to Excel?

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Man, I doubt that exists. I converted AppleWorks spreadsheets to Excel by choosing SaveAs in AW and then the Excel version, whatever it was. There were big time formatting issues. Converting a pdf? Well, that doesn't even have formulas, so unless it's just a list of some sort, Excel isn't going to play nice with it.

Free, free, free... My, are we getting spoiled!
 
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iWork 09 is not free but it does have the ability to export in many formats - so working with that and Preview is a likely path.
 
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Adobe Acrobat will allow you to copy tables from the pdf. You can then paste into Excel. I've used this before on large data sets to save a huge amount of time. The latest versions are very expensive but the one I used came with a computer a few years a go so maybe you can find used versions for sale for cheap.

The other alternative would be to scan in the pdf and use OCR to convert the text to tables.
 

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