PDF to Excel
Pull the tables out of a PDF into a spreadsheet you can actually work with — numbers stay numbers, so the column adds up.
How to Use
- Drop the PDF that has the table.
- Look at the preview: if the columns came out wrong, change column detection and it re-reads immediately.
- Download the .xlsx — one sheet per page — or a CSV if you are taking it somewhere else.
FAQ
How are the columns worked out?
A PDF has no table structure — just text at coordinates, and the lines you see may not even exist. The columns are deduced from where the fragments start: in a real table every row begins its cells at the same x positions, page after page. That pattern is far more reliable than looking for drawn rules, which half of all tables do not have.
The columns are split wrong.
Use the column detection setting. Tight separates values that sit close together; Loose merges columns that got split. The preview updates as you change it.
Why does it matter that numbers are numbers?
Because it is the only reason to convert to Excel. If “1,234.56 €” arrives as text, the column cannot be summed and you might as well have kept the PDF. Currency symbols, thousands separators and percentages are all understood — and both the European and English decimal conventions.
My PDF is a scan.
Then there is no text in it, only pixels. This tool cannot invent it: run it through OCR first, then convert.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The PDF is read and the spreadsheet written in your browser — a .xlsx is a ZIP of XML and both are built locally.