By coincidence, I am trying to convert a PDF file to MSExcel using able2extract, but without success. The data transfers to the excel spreadsheet as garbage. Am I doing something wrong? The PDF file started life as an Excel spreadsheet, I need to convert it back to Excel.
If it's information in a table format - try using the text selector tool to copy and then paste into Excel - maybe use the paste special function. Let me know how you get on...
If you have the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer installed (as a printer) it will print anything you have (including PDF) to an image file. After 'printing' it opens the image in the Document Image Writer utility. From there there is an OCR (optical character recognition) feature which should be able to extract the text content from the printed image.