PDF to CSV
Lift tables out as rows and columns any spreadsheet can open.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDFs here
or pick them from your device
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
- 1
Add your file
Add the PDF that has a table in it — a bank statement, a price list, a report appendix, an exported ledger.
- 2
Set it up the way you want
Pick the pages the table is on. Narrowing it down keeps headers and footnotes out of your data.
- 3
Download the result
Download the CSV. Every spreadsheet opens it, and the rows arrive as rows rather than as one long line of text.
Questions about PDF to CSV
- What happens to empty cells?
- They stay empty, and this is the thing most converters get wrong. Columns are worked out from where the text sits on the page, not from counting words, so a blank cell in the middle of a row does not shift everything after it one place left. That single failure is what makes most PDF-to-CSV output unusable.
- When should I use Excel instead?
- When you want a workbook: several sheets, numbers already typed as numbers, formatting kept. CSV is the plainest possible format, which is exactly why it is the right one for importing into another system, a database or a script.
- The columns came out wrong.
- Then the table probably has no consistent alignment to read — hand-drawn rules, merged headers or wrapped cells that span two lines. Try running the pages one at a time, and if the layout really is irregular, the table was built for looking at rather than for reading as data.