[ddj] PDF to Excel (or Numbers, or Google Spreadsheet)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at znmeb.net
Thu Aug 30 06:35:36 UTC 2012


Yes, tesseract does run under CygWin, but it's an ancient version.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<znmeb at znmeb.net> wrote:
> Hmmm ... I wonder if Tesseract OCR will run on CygWin. That would make
> all of the common Linux PDF tools accessible on a Windows box without
> having to host a virtual machine.
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Diana Assennato Botello
> <lamajavestida at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys, yesterday I needed a good converter from PDF to Google
>> Spreadsheet.
>>
>> I tried this online free service to create an xls.
>>
>> The conversion was not that bad, but I was wondering if you guys have any
>> recommendation for a newbie.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Diana
>>
>> http://diana.assennato.eu/
>>
>>
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