How to convert a PDF to Excel
Data trapped in a PDF table — a bank statement, a price list, a report — is painful to reuse until it's back in a spreadsheet. Converting to Excel or CSV recovers the rows and columns so you can sort, filter, and calculate instead of retyping.
Here's how, and an honest note on what to expect from automatic table extraction.
Step by step
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Open the PDF to Excel tool
Go to the PDF to Excel tool and add your PDF.
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Pick a format
Choose an Excel workbook (.xlsx, one sheet per page) or CSV files.
- 3
Download and tidy
Download the result and adjust any columns the detector grouped differently than you'd like.
How well does it work?
The tool reads the PDF's text layer and groups it into rows and columns by position, in your browser. Clean, grid-like tables come across well; dense or irregular layouts may need a little cleanup. Scanned PDFs have no text layer, so run them through OCR first.
FAQ
Will it get every table perfectly?
Simple tables convert cleanly; complex or merged layouts are best-effort and may need tidying. It's detecting structure from text positions, not reading a defined table.
It returned nothing from a scan — why?
A scan is an image with no text to read. Run it through OCR first, then convert.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No — extraction runs entirely in your browser.