How to convert from PDF to XLS?

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For those with licenses, Acrobat has exceptionally good XLSX conversion built in.

EDIT: Unfortunately, Adobe expressly forbids using Acrobat for RPA: Adobe Acrobat automation and document workflows

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  1. Open Acrobat
  2. Click File
  3. Click Export To
  4. Click Spreadsheet
  5. Click Microsoft Excel Workbook

The translation of form layouts to Excel cells is particularly good. Say you have 3 fields laid out like this:

+---------------------------+
| Name: John Doe            |
+---------------------------+
+------------+ +------------+
| Age: 112   | |  Happy: Y  |
+------------+ +------------+

Acrobat will correctly put Name on row 1 of the spreadsheet and make it span multiple columns. Age and Happy will be on row 2 and each span 1 column.