How to use PDF Data Connector in Microsoft Excel In order to be able to use Excel’s PDF importer feature, you must first connect a PDF document to the Excel spreadsheet you are working on.

You can also transfer data from a PDF file into an Excel spreadsheet automatically by using a software program such as PDF to Excel Converter, Able2Extract or Cogniview.

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.