
Plus, Techsmith offers a free trial, so you can see for yourself whether or not it’s worth picking up. Snagit also automatically puts captures into the editor, eliminating the extra step of finding and loading the new file you created. And more than that, you don’t have to bounce between multiple programs. Why would you pay $49.95 for something that you could ostensibly do with the Print Screen button?īecause Snagit just kind of does it better. Not to mention any kind of arrows, notes, resizing, and effects could be done in any of those as well.

We can resize images easily in Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET, whatever. After all, MacOS has Grab, and Windows has the Snipping Tool. And because of being branded that way, a lot of folks (myself included) didn’t see what the big deal was. If you’re a blogger and haven’t checked out Snagit yet, I am going to tell you why you should at least give it a look. But when you use it for a bit, you will see it’s a bit more than that. At its base, Snagit is screen capture software. This process creates one to two unnecessary and unused documents after the fact, but I just structured a folder system that I delete regularly.It’s not an exaggeration to say that Snagit has made my daily routine more efficient three times over, if not more. Copy the table and format into your database or primary spreadsheet. You should be able to view the document and its tabled contents.ĥ. Finally, go to the newly saved excel spreadsheet. Save the spreadsheet to your desired locationĤ. Next, File> Save As> Spreadsheet> Microsoft Excel Workbook. This will flatten the file- this step may not be necessary if you can select the entire table rather than individual cells.ģ. File> Print> Print the document as and Adobe PDF and save to a desired location.

Open the PDF you need to extract table information from.Ģ. If you can select the table as you'd like to copy it rather than individual cells, you may be able to skip the second step.ġ. I've created our own forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.2, so the documents I need to extract tabled information from are very heavy with formatting and embedded content.

The workaround is more complicated that it should be, and it would be nice if Adobe would recognize and bring back the utility and convenience of 'Copy as Table' for those of us that need it. I just came across this problem today as I am constantly copying information from signed PDF forms into excel spreadsheets for database and metrics needs. I work on different networks for our company and have Adobe 9 Pro on one network and Adobe X Pro on the other. I created a forum name just to answer this as I've found a workaround that works for me.
