There may be a lot better way to do it but I copied a Bill of Materials from a .dwg and imported it into Excel. I downloaded a free .dwg viewer (DWG TruView) from AutoDesk Compare DWG Viewers | DWG TrueView A36 & AutoCAD Mobile | Autodesk s# You will notice I used Word as an intermediary. That because it is a lot smarter about converting from a PDF than Excel especially when the original data is in a table. Word then adds its own intelligence to the resulting table and Excel can understand that with perfect fidelity. Use the viewer to open the .dwg Copy everything from the Windows Snipping Tool window Reopen the .PDF in Word which will offer to convert it from a .PDF to an editable Word document. This is a feature in Word 213 and later. I don know if the OCR conversion feature is built into everybody Word but it is in mine. Copy the Word Table