PDF to CSV
Lift tables out as rows and columns any spreadsheet can open.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
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Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Pick the pages with the table — the thumbnails make them easy to spot.
- Need several sheets or number formats? PDF to Excel keeps more of the structure.
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
Add your file
Add the PDF that has a table in it — a bank statement, a price list, a report appendix, an exported ledger.
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.
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.