Can’t copy from PDF... help!

[extraT]

Chaps, I’m hoping someone here has a bit more of an IT brain than I do with this very annoying problem.

I have a PDF file (an invoice) that I need to copy and paste into a CSV file. One supplier has “locked” the off so I cannot copy and paste. Is there any online converter/ setting/wizardry that I can perform to enable copy and pasting?!

Thank you!

Darren

[anonymous-user]

Have you tried a screen grab, then cut and paste that ?
Also, do you have a print to pdf option ? You can then save that as another file.

[extraT]

Hi Graham, thank you but I need to do the reverse, from pdf to excel to manipulate the data

[anonymous-user]

extraT said:

Hi Graham, thank you but I need to do the reverse, from pdf to excel to manipulate the data

Ah I see. I know Adobe has a load of paid for upgrades, I assume you would need one of them. Good luck !

[Andy 308GTB]

Ask the supplier to send an Excel or CSV version - I would guess that's the original format?

[Cliftonite]

Would an OCR program / app not enable you to do what you want? Most printed word can thereby be converted to word processor usable text.

[randlemarcus]

Excel mobile, i.e. Android or iPhone. Take picture from the App,and it converts to Excel without the DRM.

[nyt]

can you run the PDF through one of the online 'PDF to Word' or 'PDF to Excel' converters?

[Gargamel]

Www.smallpdf.com

I think will convert it

[extraT]

Gargamel said:

Www.smallpdf.com

I think will convert it

Thank you all for your suggestions, and Gargamel, this helped! Thank you!

[ninja-lewis]

It's also possible to bypass '(SECURED)' protection on PDFs using 'Microsoft Print' to PDF in the printer menu.

[anonymous-user]

ninja-lewis said:

It's also possible to bypass '(SECURED)' protection on PDFs using 'Microsoft Print' to PDF in the printer menu.

I said that It's a recent discovery for me and I use it all the time now.