You'll probably want to first convert the PDF files to text; I like to use pdftotext. You can call it from perl with the system command if you like (once it's installed, that is). Then you'll want to open the files, read from them, and maybe use split or regular expressions to parse the data. You can use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to create Excel spreadsheets, or Text::CSV (or Text::CSV_XS) to create csv files (that some people think are spreadsheets anyway).

Hope that helps, and welcome to PerlMonks. Remember that we are not a code writing service, but if you show some code and have a specific problem, we can help you with it.

In reply to Re: Extracting data from a PDF to a spreadsheet by runrig
in thread Extracting data from a PDF to a spreadsheet by NonProgrammer

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