PDF Converting On The Google Pixel

Instructions and Help about PDF Converting on the Google Pixel

Hello everyone this is Ian Lamont author of Google Drive and Doc's in 30 minutes and recently I received a question about Google Drive and Docs and actually specifically Google sheets and I've created some videos in the past where you can create a PDF from a Google sheets but someone asks is it possible to create a Google sheets from a PDF that is if you have a PDF with some information on it can you import that data into Google sheets and the the short answer is yes but you have to do a couple extra steps to make it work and this is what this video will show you hopefully in a short period of time so let's take a look at a PDF here's a very simple PDF that I have it basically just shows the daily highs temperatures in various cities in the Northeast US on a weekly basis it's a very simple chart and what I want to do is take this data it's all text data in the PDF I can't edit it but I want to bring it into Google sheets and the idea is once that data is in there then I can manipulate it I can create charts I can export it as something else and how would you do that and the answer is it's pretty hard to do it directly and in fact I haven't been able to figure out a way to do it directly but there's a workaround you can do to make it work one caveat the PDF that you have it has to be a really simple charter table it can't be other like you can't have text over on the left side here that's outside of the table or you know to two...