PDF to Excel as flat file, via macro

[Guest]

Hi All......

I can record a macro and do this completely as I want to,.......that is,
open the PDF file from within Excel, get Acrobat Reader to then open it, and
copy and paste all text (as a flat column A text) into my Excel
sheet............only problem is, the Copy and Paste steps do not
"record".......

If anyone knows how to do this, I would dearly appreciate the help.

TIA
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[arno]

sheet............only problem is, the Copy and Paste steps do not

"record".......

Try to enter the senkey-method to type CTRL+C for you where this should
happen in your recorded macro. I am not sure if this will work but it's
worth a try. You can find details on sendkey in vba-help.

arno

 

[Guest]

Thanks amo........that's what I'm in the process of now, but not having much
luck...it appears the SendKeys thing is not very user friendly <g>

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[arno]

luck...it appears the SendKeys thing is not very user friendly <g>

what you need is:
Application.SendKeys ("^c")

arno

 

[CLR]

Ohhhh, that looks interesting...............I have to stop off for Blood
Test this morning but will be anxious to try it as soon as I get to
work...........

Many thanks arno...............

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[CLR]

Still no joy in PDFland...........

I've tried
SendKeys "^(c)"
Application.SendKeys ("^c")
before, after, before and after, and in-between my recorded "open the PDF
file" code, and still no luck........once the Reader is open, it just does
not respond to any of my "SendKeys" code, but of course it will respond to
typed Control-C, etc..........

Here's the code I use to open the file, and it works fine........

ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(FileName:= _
"D:\MyPath\Monthly Variance Package 2005-01.pdf" _
, Link:=True, DisplayAsIcon:=False).Select
Selection.Verb

What I really want to do after opening the file is, Ctrl-A to "select all",
Ctrl-C to "copy", Ctrl_q to "quit the application", then paste into A1 in my
sheet............

Any further suggestions would be much appreciated........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[arno]

Hi,

write down exactly what you are typing when you do it manually,
including all ALT+TAB etc. Try to to use ALT-TAB to switch between
applications and do not close the reader.

Then use sendkeys with all the commands you have written and run it. I
thing this would be ALT+TAB, CTRL+c, ALT+TAB and then paste. Attention:
CTRL+C (which is actually CTRL+SHIFT+c) is different from CTRL+c. Eg. I
reload an Access query from Excel with:

Sub asAccess()
'ALT+TAB, Shift+F9 and ALT+TAB
Application.SendKeys ("%{TAB}")
Application.SendKeys ("+{F9}")
Application.SendKeys ("%{TAB}")
End Sub

Read vba help on Sendkeys for further information, there's everything
you need.

arno

 

[CLR]

Okey doke arno, I'll give it a try.............thanks

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Michael Bednarek]

I can record a macro and do this completely as I want to,.......that is,
open the PDF file from within Excel, get Acrobat Reader to then open it, and
copy and paste all text (as a flat column A text) into my Excel
sheet............only problem is, the Copy and Paste steps do not
"record".......

If anyone knows how to do this, I would dearly appreciate the help.

I do something similar by extracting the relevant information from the
PDF file with pdftotext from <http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/> and
subsequent batch-editing. For that I use 4NT's string manipulation
features, but sed or similar would probably do it as well. The resulting
file can then be imported as a CSV file.

 

[Guest]

Much Joy exists..........I finally got there.......

Many thanks for all of your time and assistance arno

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Guest]

I appreciate your information Michael, but that stuff is 'way over my
head......no matter tho, the problem was just solved......

Many thanks for your response....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3