PDF to Excel
Pull a table out of a PDF into a spreadsheet.
- 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 a PDF that contains a table. It works on tables that were laid out as tables — ruled or clearly aligned columns. A screenshot of a spreadsheet is a picture and will not come through as cells.
- 2
Set it up the way you want
Choose whether to skip empty rows. Everything else is read from the page: the tool works out where the columns are from how the text is positioned, because a PDF has no idea it is holding a table.
- 3
Download the result
Download the spreadsheet and check the column boundaries before you trust the numbers. Reconstructed tables are usually right and occasionally off by a column.
Questions about PDF to Excel
- Why do some columns come out merged?
- Because a PDF does not store a table — it stores text at coordinates. Columns are inferred from spacing, so a table with irregular gaps or merged header cells can be read as fewer columns than you see. Ruled tables convert most reliably.
- My PDF is a scan and nothing came out.
- A scan has no text to read, only an image. Run OCR on it first; then the table can be reconstructed from the recognised text.
- Are my figures sent anywhere?
- No. The PDF is parsed and the spreadsheet is written with nothing uploaded. Financial data is never transmitted, which matters more here than on most tools.