Import Data from a PDF to Excel

I have installed Office365 but import PDF option it doesn't show kindly help me in this regard,thanks

My office version is office 365 proplus.but I don't have this option under get and transfrom..could you help me solve this..? Or why was it..

Another excellent video, nice voice and volume yo explain Power Query, muy claro con tus vídeos Mynda, congratulations! I am learning good!

the Get Data option is not there in my excel-2016.

Would be able to convert multiple pdf to one Excel sheet

Plz help me, i have latest ms 365 but pdf import option r not showing🙄

I am using Excel 2019 application in windows 10 I don't have option to get data from pdf . Can you please tell me how can I get that option?

I don't have pdf option!!! How do I get it there?

Will this work with the on line version of excell?

Please, i have a question. After we import the PDF file via Power bi, how can i select all tables at the same time. when i importe a long PDF file, i get a hundreds tables that i cannot select one by one. that may takes a life time. thank you.

What Excel version is this? There's not Get Data tab on Excel 2016. It only shows From Access, From Web, and From Text.

Hello. I'm wondering if Power Query can be used to import and process larger lists in pdf? F.ex. General Ledger or similar. Sometimes we get longer lists in that format and it would have been very useful to be able to edit them before they are taken over in excel. I have tried but unfortunately without success.

What If you don’t have Excel 365? I have excel 2016. What would be the best solution in this case? I’ve tried several attempts starting from PDF but the results don’t always work.

Thanks .T
You were too fast

PDF option not show in my excel

How can we convert 100 pages pdf. Pls send the email I'll send the document.. I have tried but not happen.

Hello, I'm not good with Computer so this is a bit hard to understand for me... Let say I have multiple pdf files ( or I can combine multiple pdf files into 1 big file, separate by each page) which have the same format. Now I want to extract some specific data from said files using the "Get data -> From PDF" function. The problem now is I'm having multiple pages extracted and don't know how to apply the same configuration to each page and then combine them into 1 table...
Can someone help me with this problem? Thank you so much in advance.

I'm a mailer and sometimes get address lists in pdf. I'm going to try this at work. Probably going to take a few tries but if I can get it to work I'll look like a stud. We usually have to have the client send us a xls or csv to get their addresses imported to our addressing machine.

What version of excel are you using?????

Yes ...I will try this in my job 👍

hi, great video! question for you MyOnlineTrainingHub -

I have several tables from PDF, they are basically one long table (22 tables in import) but only the first table has headers.
Excel doesnt recognize or understand that columns from each table are the same so it ends up staggering them over.

so if table 1 ends on column 10, then table 2 starts on column 11, table 3 on column 21, and so on.

how do you make excel recognize or understand that you want it to simply stack all the tables on top of each other and recognize headers from first table you pick?

Thank you very much for a clear and concise tutorial. I'm going to try it myself now with a bank statement.

Hi,

I just got a recent update Nov 2021 of O365 & sadly it seems that the option for getting data from PDF is no longer available.

Do you know a workaround?

Is there a way to the import data and select all tables automatically? For example, you only have to specify the location with multiple PDFs and the automation does the loading + selecting all tables

Can i use in Microsoft Excel 2019? I can't see From PDF in Get Data.

Darn, do not have the get data, rom file option??

There is no pdf icon in my excel

Thanks, Mynda! Quick question. Are we able to specify a conditional last page i.e. [StartPage = 3, If(condition, EndPage = 7, EndPage = 8] to cater for variable number of tables.

If you have a pdf that is always in the same format, is there a way to create a template so when you create an import button you don't have to do all the work every time? Is this too much for a macro to do?

It's only available for Office 365 users. Yes. I save your time, you can now go look for different methods.

Why do I get "Table is Empty" error? Is it because the data was scanned to pdf?

Thanks for the nice presentation, in case the excel navigator is showing pages on left and on Right hand side it shows page is empty? any Advise. Thanks

I'm using this method to import data , but when i'm trying to refresh using a diff pdf having similar data , i'm getting errors as Power Query picks up diff tables than i want , kindly help. I liked and subbed by the way , excellent video.

Thanks, very much, I have this issue, I have different pdf files, these have different pages and tables, it may be possible to get the names of the queries so my query does not fail, since the files differ in pages and tables and my query fails

My PDF is a scan of a table and the Power Query just says "no data in table". Thinking the quality of the scan isn't good enough for the software to recognize. Any way around this?

Thanks for the video, why can I not reformat the cells i.e. insert currency symbol and insert formulars to add up columns etc.

So I've set up a Power Query from a PDF, which involved quite a lot of tidying! We have an old system that provides messy PDF outputs for data, and I'd like to add new PDFs and get Power Query to do the same applied steps every time, so I can feed it new PDFs and get clean outputted data as separate tables. Is this possible?

what if i only want page 7 and page 9, skipping page 8?

hi maam i have question in my data option from file from pdf option is not coming

I have multiple excel in some excel data is available in table 3 and in some excel same data is available in table 4 . So how to transform both table? Pl support me

Madam, I am re-framing my question I have Multiple PDF file in one folder, in some PDF when I see in Power Query it shows as Table 3 and for some PDF it shows the same content in Table 4. so importing becomes problem if I select the sample from table 3 then only data from all pdf from table 3 will be considered for processing. one common thing I have is table has one column Name as " LineNO". First I should find if PDF has a table having the column as LineNO if Yes then consider that as the table to process and move to next PDF and do the same process So Importing of Table having Column Name as "LineNo" is the condition that to be passed before Transform.

the function "get data " is not appearing in my excel version . please advice

Excellent 👍

Not only getting idea for importing pdf n also to work in PQ in another dimension thanks 👍

In my PDF, I have 14 columns and 47 rows. I want to show each row in a single cell of power query so that the trailing spaces are not lost. Pls advise.

Hi, Excellent video. However, I was wondering how to append pages that are not continuous?

How could I select and append different tables from different files at the same time? Scenario: Select Tables 4, 13, 16 and 19 from pdf.files 1,3,5,7?

I manually imported tons of tables from pdf files in my work in the last 2 weeks and my boss found that I was taking too long to do the task. This evening I started to think there must be a solution to do this tedious task automatically and quickly, so I found out that Microsoft Office 365 can do this. I feel stupid for not having known this before.

Thank you so much, the technique will help me so much. I did not know Power Query would be able to identify pages with tables and separate them from pages with text. super-amazing👏👏