pdf to excel conversion

[shantanu@india]

Hi,
The subject sounds simple & I am sure that many of you have used websites like this.
But I need a web-free stand-alone solution to scan a A4 sheet containing a table into it's equivalent excel.
I was thinking of using a OCR scanner.
Can anyone suggest?
Thanks.

[trastikata]

ABBYY FineReader - good tool and it's easy to find the free demo version.

[shantanu@india]

Thanks...I'll try

[shantanu@india]

It's working perfectly in terms of OCR conversion & excel formation.
Problem is , my A4 sheets have some comments written by pen in certain cells of the table which should appear as image in the corresponding cell of the excelsheet. The OCR converter is converting these handwritten comments into gibberish.
Is there any way to tell the OCR software not to convert handwritten texts?
Same problem exits in all online converters including Adobe.

[trastikata]

I believe there was an option to ignore and keep as picture what is not recognized, but can't be sure I have to check.