Monarch Pro

Monarch is Windows-based "Report Mining" software that easily extracts data from existing reports produced by any information system, along with easy data analysis, graphing, and exporting of data to other applications such as Excel and Access.

Unlike other solutions to access and analyze business data, it requires no programming skills and no assistance from the IT department. The package empowers anyone in the organization to access and work with needed data, not just a select group of "power users" with advanced technology skills.

- from Datawatch Europe

Monarch Software does some great things (5.0 out of 5 stars )
This is great software for anyone who needs to pull information out of massive computer reports or .pdf files. You give the software certain parameters about the report you are working with and, once you get it right, you get all of the information in a spreadsheet format that is extremely useable, can be easily exported to other files, reorganized, recalculated, etc. It does have a bit of a learning curve if you want to do its more complicated functions, however, the time spent learning the software could give you the information you can't get otherwise, and save you lots of time in the long run.

Monarch Pro Review (5.0 out of 5 stars )
This is an excellent product that performs exactly as it is advertised. If you are looking to convert "paper" reports that can be converted to a database, this is exactly what you should use. I purchased the "Pro" version because of my need to convert PDF files, not supported in the "standard" version. The only caution -Monarch insists that the PDF file be authentic (i.e. generated by Adobe) rather than one produced by a third-party PDF look-alike generator.

While the manual and on-line instructions are less than complete, the technical support is responsive and very helpful. I would recommend this product to anyone who has this "conversion" need, it can save countless hours of otherwise wasted time.