The newest version is stunningly good at capturing and prepping data for GATEWAY into RBASE.
Bruce Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. 909.238.9012 mobile -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeB Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: PDF to Excel Gawd, I still have Monarch from the early nineties on two 3.5 in disks.. I used it extensively to capture irregularly formed data.. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce > A. Chitiea > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: PDF to Excel > > Karen: > > > > I’ve been very successful with “Monarch Desktop” from DataWatch Corp. > ( starting w/ version 2.0 in 1993 ). > > > > Monarch allows you to ‘paint’ a data-capture mask on a native (1) PDF > document. > > > > Each painted field is named and described, so as the capture proceeds > the data is arranged in an internal format displayed very much like an > Excel file. > > > > This data is then easily exported to Excel, CSV or SQL table > structures. > > > > I believe the current version can be connected to the world through > ODBC. > > > > Once created, any recurring document – such as a bank statement or > financial statement – may be captured and converted using the mask. No > need to recreate the mask. > > > > (1) Monarch works directly with data structures within a PDF > document; it requires a PDF file generated directly with a PDF > printing process. A PDF of a scanned hard-copy document is problematic. > > > > Let me know if I can help. > > > > Bruce Chitiea > > 909.238.9012 mobile > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen > Tellef > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 6:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RBASE-L] - PDF to Excel > > > > Well, let's see if THIS message only comes to the list once!! > Sorry for whatever hickup on my or their side that caused the > cascading messages! > > Is there a utlity you've used to convert a PDF to Excel? I need to > import data from a PDF file. I googled it and I see alot of "free" > options (free is always cool) but I worry that those free utilities > are installing other unknown things on the computer. Would be willing > to pay for a quality program, of course! The utility doesn't have to > be fully automated, the user is willing to do the conversion manually > is that's required. > > Karen
