title: How to convert PDF files to spreadsheets
body: <p>I have been trying the whole day to convert several. pdf files which contain traffic flow for São Paulo to spreadsheets like MS Office Excel, or LibreOffice Calc in Ubuntu. When I open the .pdf file with LibreOffice Calc it opens  LibreOffice Draw, and I can't get the spreadsheet.</p>
  
  <p>The most promising method that I found was <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13843905/converting-pdf-files-to-excel-xls?rq=1">here</a> with pdftotext. It works fine and I can get the tables in LibreOffice Calc but adjusting manually the columns.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that I have so many .pdf files that it would take me a lot of time.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know a better method?</p>