I actually did something similar with California sales tax tables.

What I did was to use Adobe's online conversion tool via LWP to grab a text version of what I wanted. However I discovered that their tool indeed does convert things to text, but not always as contiguous text. Cities like San Luis Obispo came through as:

San Luis
Obispo

So that's something to be aware of using the Adobe converter. I haven't tried the other techniques so I can't say how things would be converted.

HTH!

Update: The link to Adobe's online conversion tool

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.