PDF to Excel
Extract tables from PDFs into Excel spreadsheets.
One sheet. Original layout.
Every PDF page is placed top-to-bottom on the same worksheet, with a small page break between pages. Selectable text stays editable and searchable.
Drop your PDF here or choose one
Works with one PDF up to 100MB
A practical guide to PDF to Excel
PDF to Excel infers tables from positioned text, ruling lines, and page geometry, then exports editable spreadsheet cells. The review is most reliable when source rows and columns are visually consistent.
Example: recover a statement table for analysis
Convert the relevant pages, compare dates and debit or credit columns against the PDF, then correct merged headers before calculations.
Task-specific steps
- 1
Choose a PDF with visible tables and identify whether it contains selectable text or scanned page images.
- 2
Run extraction and inspect detected table boundaries, row alignment, merged headings, and numeric columns.
- 3
Open the XLSX, compare sample rows and totals with the PDF, and correct inference errors before analysis.
Options that affect the result
- Ruled-table detection uses visible borders while borderless inference uses consistent text geometry.
- Drawing-aware export can preserve page regions that cannot be represented safely as ordinary cells.
Limitations to know first
- PDFs do not store spreadsheet cells, formulas, or semantic tables, so reconstruction is always an inference.
- Scans, merged cells, multi-line rows, irregular spacing, and complex financial layouts require manual verification.
Questions specific to this task
Why are two PDF columns combined in Excel?
Their text positions may overlap or lack a consistent separator. Adjust the output manually and verify the source geometry.
Will PDF formulas become Excel formulas?
No. A PDF normally contains displayed values, not the original formula definitions. Exported cells represent detected content.