Hint: To run this test in Adobe Acrobat®, use the icon.ĭepending on whether you have a-text based PDF or an image-based PDF, you have different options to extract data to Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, or convert directly from PDF to Quicken. If your cursor grabs the entire document or makes boxes, then you are working with an image-based PDF. If you are able to highlight the words and/or data using your cursor, then the PDF is text based. Use the following steps to convert PDF to Quicken for statements like this one:Įvery PDF is either text based or image based, depending on how the file was created. But there are ways to convert PDF data automatically.

Need to update your records and the only source is a PDF file? Entering transactions manually is a time consuming alternative.