Cut out tables from PDF

englishpremier

englishpremier

englishpremier

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Is there a quick way to exact tables and charts from a PDF?

I have hundreds to do and at the moment am manually opening each page in gimp and cropping and saving the table.

It's a labourious task to say the least.
 
A 'quicker' way of doing it would be to open the PDF using whatever PDF viewer you use then using the 'Snipping Tool' which comes bundled with Win 7.

It's a nifty little tool.
 
This seems like a win XP alternative:

http://xpsnipping.codeplex.com/

It basically allows you to highlight a specific part of the page, crop and save all in one go. So it will eb quicker than waiting for gimp to load, finding the table, cropping, then saving.

As for doing it automatically I don't know if that is possible. Maybe with some OCR type software.
 
Oh just to add. In gimp i'm upping to the DPI to 300, to make the chart larger on screen.

I just tried snagit 10 (demo) it captures fine, but as the chart isn't at 300dpi it's too small.

This is all because the company i work for are too cheap to pay the designer to do it.
 
Are the graphs etc... in the same place in each document?

If they are then you maybe able to use something like autohotkey to automate it? There are other similar macro type recorders out there some paid and some free.
 
Foxit PDF Editor ( now known as Foxit PhantomPDF ) has saved me literally hours of hassle when editing PDF's. Had a couple of recent clients who wanted lists of courses available in PDF format for users to download. Foxit saved me the hassle of cropping the documents and pasting bits all over the place into blank documents in Fireworks.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/editor/

Not sure if there is a trial version or anything but it's not a hugely expensive purchase anyway if you equate it to man hours saved. :cool:
 
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