MST PDF DataExtractor is an efficient and easy to understand piece of software created to offer you an alternative means of obtaining editable data from PDF files with compact blocks of text, like invoices, client or contacts lists, enabling you to target specific bits and export them to DOC, XLS or TXT format, with little to no effort involved.

Clean and practical looks

Following a very quick and simple installation process, you can launch the program and begin working with it immediately, as it offers a very straight-forward and intuitive interface, that will not have you wasting time in the attempt to figure it out.

The main window allows you to open the targeted PDF, while the buttons in the toolbar enable you to apply the grid over your document, either manually or automatically, however best suits your requirements.

Swiftly extract text from your PDFs by organizing it into sections and pulling out the bits that you need

To load a document in MST PDF DataExtractor, you can use the ‘Open PDF’ button or you can just drag and drop the files onto the main window of the application, listing all the pages of the PDF in the left side panel and allowing you to browse through them.

Using your mouse cursor, you can create a grid on the surface of the file, or you can use the ‘Auto Grid’ function. An adjustable table will then be created, integrating a line of text, a whole paragraph or any other section of text into rows and columns.

The ‘Zoom In’ and ‘Zoom Out’ features let you analyze the contents of the PDF in detail, while the ‘Merge Cells’ and ‘UnMerge Cells’ functions let you edit the shape of your grid so as to integrate the data you need perfectly into the table. You can also create new rows or columns by hand.

The ‘Export’ component can be accessed from the toolbar button or the context menu, by selecting the targeted cells and choosing the preferred output option, with Word, Excel (being compatible with Microsoft Office), CSV, HTML, TXT, CSV and BMP as alternatives.

A handy text extraction tool

To conclude, MST PDF DataExtractor is a useful and reliable utility that aims to assist you in generating editable data out of PDF files, supporting a wide array of output formats, so you can work with your information however you may need.

PDF Data Extractor Enterprise can extract certain text information within the PDF, This is an ideal product if you had for example a PDF statement that you need to extract data like Account Number, Name, Address and output this information into an Excel CSV file. It uses horizontal, vertical text position matching and for more advanced matching it has a rules system for conditional matching, e.g. Only take match when Account Number: text is on the same page. Different fields can also be merged into one, so say First Name and Surname can be output as one field in the CSV file. Many options are available: Data Extraction, OCR pdf option, OCR number correction, Adjust for Skewed pdf page option, Full Unicode support for other language files e.g. Hebrew, Right to Left reading order option, Offset on a word on the page for dealing with Chopped Scanned PDF’s, Number, Date & Money / Date / Address / Email / Telephone Number / Number filtering, Smart Adobe Reader PDF Highlight Setup, Output filename using data, Pattern Matching, Data file lookup for matching codes for descriptions, Data column order assignment, Run on the command line, Header output, page number field, filename field, Batch list of files to process, 32bit and 64bit versions.
Also can now rename or copy files to a new location based on data extracted.
Enterprise version also supports: Hot Folder Multi-Threaded Monitoring, NT Service background support, SQL Server database insert support for updating a database directly from pdf data and other DOS Commands per data extracted for full enterprise flexibility.

PDF Data Extractor is a free trial software published in the Other list of programs, part of Business.

This program is available in English. It was last updated on 2022-01-24. PDF Data Extractor is compatible with the following operating systems: Other, Windows.

The company that develops PDF Data Extractor is Traction Software. The latest version released by its developer is 3.02. This version was rated by 2 users of our site and has an average rating of 2.5.