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Software that can extract tables from PDF files

Use pdftables.com. Sample input: Output:
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Software that can extract tables from PDF files

ABLE2EXTRACT PDF CONVERTER does this brilliantly well. You can check demo video on their page. The thing I love about this software is (and I think its unique to this product alone): You can just ...
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Microsoft office viewer on Linux

You can definitely use Kingsoft Office, it's highly compatible with MS Office file formats and offers a tab view to open multiple documents in the same window.
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Software to learn Excel VBA without buying Excel

One mechanism that you could possibly use would be to install a Virtual Manchine, such as Virtual Box, download one of the windows test images at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/...
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program

Try OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Open Office is from Apache and it's free for linux. I don't know if it is free for Windows or not. When you go to the page, use the computer for which you want the ...
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Program or library to read an Excel-based schedule hourly and read content out loud

It should be completely possible using python with the following libraries: datetime built in library xlrd excel read library pyttsx text to speech library
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Is there a text editor which displays column numbers and/or displays text in a grid to quickly glance column numbers?

CudaText editor has features for it: option "ruler_show": True in user.json - this shows horizontal ruler on the top menu item "View - Toggle ruler" option "margin_string": "30 40 50" in user.json - ...
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program

I will list several answers based on what your question entails, feel free to take your pick as your ultimate solution. My newer computer is a 64 bit Windows 7 (yes, it's an antique :-). The 2007 ...
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Creating a graph of connections between Office files

If a programmatic solution will be acceptable, Essential XlsIO can be used to generate the list of external references for Excel files. Simple sample application that generates a list with source ...
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Creating a graph of connections between Office files

First you might need to extract the reference exists in an excel file. This SO question is having a very good details. If you want a simple solution, you may be you can use the link to extract a ...
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Portable convert excel to mysql

Try https://sqlizer.io (I work here) which converts Excel (xls and xlsx) files to SQL databases. It's free for small databases (under 5000 rows) then costs $15. You have to tell it which worksheet and ...
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Where to start building simple database to streamline analysis for community organization?

Since you said that you have Microsoft Excel, I'm going to assume that you also have Access. I am not a great fan of Access but I must say it sometimes is fit and fast for certain task. As far as ...
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Excel alternative that uses JavaScript

If you are willing to try an Add-in, there is a way to use Javascript, HTML and css in Excel. It's called Funfun and it hosts an online editor with an embedded spreadsheet so the transition isn't hard ...
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How to convert an Excel spreadsheet into an interactable web page?

Publisheet You might want to give www.publisheet.com a try. It's an add-in for Excel that allows you to publish your spreadsheets as dynamic web pages with formula support. To publish your ...
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Software to learn Excel VBA without buying Excel

In Europe (not sure about USA), it is legal to resell software licenses. When PCs are scrapped, companies who buy them for spare parts also run some software which extracts license key numbers, which ...
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Using Microsoft Excel as user interface for a windows form application

This is not embedding Excel, but a Spreadsheet component that tries to provide functionality similar to Excel. Syncfusion Spreadsheet for WPF or Spreadsheet for Windows Forms support embedding Excel ...
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QR scanner for making trade fair shopping lists

Some Barcode Scanners & Generators¹ have a feature for "bulk scanning" (a la "peep, peep, peep …" and simply storing what they found), and later let you export the list in some format – either ...
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What is the best spreadsheet-like tool to manage structured data with tags and multiple columns of different sizes

A form in LibreOffice Base can ensure data consistency. However, doing everything you described in Base requires careful design and likely some macro programming. As stated in the comments, Calc can ...
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program

While Libreoffice like everyone suggested is a very rounded solution indeed for sake of completeness and more options I am also adding another opensource project here: https://www.onlyoffice.com/...
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program

Are you try to use GoogleSheets? It's free and more useful for me. It's very similar with MS Exel: all scripts and formulas from Exel are working; you can import from Exel and export to Exel; you can ...
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How to convert an Excel spreadsheet into an interactable web page?

Aaron, you have quite a bit of programming ahead of you! Plus maybe two new programming languages to learn ;-) You can make a desktop based program and hide the calculation formulae by virtue of them ...
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Alternative Windows program for editing Excel xml format spreadsheets

XML is the Extensible Markup Language. Are you sure you're not referring to .xls or .xlm files? The best option IMHO is LibreOffice. LibreOffice Calc uses the ODS format by default, but it can read ...
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Looking for Online Data Storage Software/Web Application

I believe there a couple fo ways you can tackle you question, however it is important to keep in mind as to "what do you want to do with this data?". Basically if it is just for storage and edit, or ...
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Looking for Online Data Storage Software/Web Application

You can do this with the Wolfram Alpha Data Drop service. You could configure this to receive your data in a number of formats including emailing or tweeting into the database, imports from various ...
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How do you create a parent-child tree with table/excel data?

I solved, perhaps, slightly different case with tree representation on Confluence pages with https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GVIZ/Digraph+Macro plugin that can take a table as a source.
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Is there a VBA function or plugin for Excel that will let me use arbitrary date formats to parse dates from string?

Can I suggest trying XL Wings Python for Excel it allows you to use python as an alternative to VBA and the python datetime functions library will allow you to do exactly what you are looking for with ...
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Opening and sorting huge files

For large file support, sorting, filtering, ect., you will be very hard pushed to beat Pandas. Can read & write numerous formats including CSV, Excel & HDF. Free, Gratis & Open Source ...
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Which software do I need for taking the values from video

Typically OCR is done on a single frame, so all of the solutions I know of involve some process that takes a single frame out of the video stream and attempts to image processing to clean it up before ...
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Limiting editing options in PDFs or Excel

You can try to lock cells in worksheet or try Google Forms to create your application form.
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Excel to CSV Java library

Spire.XLS for Java library is capable of reading XLS/XLSX files and saving them as CSV. You just need to write 4 lines of code. Maven dependencies: <repositories> <repository> &...
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