need to export to excel, just text entities from old drawing.
or convert to table, then export.
as long as i can get the text to excel
Do you happen to have the AutoCAD Design Suite?
The AutoCAD Design Suite includes Raster Design, and Raster Design includes a tool that will let you create an AutoCAD Table from an image.
Just an idea, you could try printing your drawing to a raster format (JPG, TIF, etc), and then bring that image into Raster Design - converting it into a table.
I wouldn't bother about the Raster design method. OCR to table would give you just text but probably with poor translation. Contrary to the what the ribbon implies, it does not produce a table.