Extract Tables From Scan

Extract Tables From Scan in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Extract tables and counts from a scanned traffic count report so I can import them into my spreadsheets.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Convert the scanned traffic count report PDF into an Excel file and XML export so I can import the…
Convert the scanned traffic count report PDF into an Excel file and XML export so I can import the counts into my spreadsheets; verify column headers and row totals match the printed report before I run analysis.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Extract tables so analysts can trust them: convert the scanned count report to Excel and XML,…
Extract tables so analysts can trust them: convert the scanned count report to Excel and XML, reconcile header names to our schema, correct misread numbers, and produce a short QC log of any ambiguous cells for the data manager.

Who does this, and with what

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Transportation PlannerAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Convert Tables To Spreadsheets

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