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I Need Excel -- PDF to Excel (Is it possible ?)

323240Feb 5 2003 — edited Aug 8 2003

I have a several complex reports in PDF format and they all work very well. Now our customers in South Africa want all of these reports in Microsoft Excel format so that they can slice/dice/play with the data.

I tried using DESFORMAT=delimited
DELIMITER=,
CELLWRAPPER="
to generate comma separated reports and I was dumbstruck to see undecipherable output. I know it is not Oracle Reports bug. The csv file does not contain the information that is outside the margins (header, footer information etc.). The comma separated output that the report writer produced is simply not acceptable.

Is there anything I can do to preserve the data and make the excel report look as close to the PDF report as possible ?

I apologize if this topic has already been discussed.

Thanks