PDF to Excel
Pull the tables out of a PDF into a workbook, one sheet per table.
Drop files here
Or paste them, or pick them from this device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in this tab.
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Options
Which pages to take the tables from.
Make the workbook
Add a file to get started.
What this does
The same table-finding as PDF to CSV, but written into a real workbook — one sheet per table, merged cells kept where the file drew the lines that prove them, and cells that are plainly figures stored as numbers. A code that happens to be digits is deliberately left as text, because a spreadsheet that turns 007 into 7 has lost something nobody can get back.
What it will not do
Every tool here says what it cannot do, in its own words, before you rely on it.
- A PDF does not record what was a table; it records text in places. A table is found by the lines drawn around it, or by its columns lining up, and a table that has neither is read as ordinary text.
- A merged cell is only visible where the file drew the lines: a table nobody ruled reports no merges, because a wide cell and an empty one beside it look exactly alike from the text.
- Only cells that are plainly figures become numbers. A code that happens to be digits stays text, because a spreadsheet that makes 007 into 7 has lost something nobody can get back.
- Nothing but the cells comes across: not the fonts, not the colours, not the widths the table was set to, and no formula, because a PDF holds none.
- One table becomes one sheet. A table split across two pages becomes two sheets, because nothing in the file says the second is a continuation of the first.
- A scanned page holds a picture of a table. Run OCR over it first.
Questions people ask
Why is my reference number stored as text?
On purpose. Leading zeros, long identifiers and anything that is only incidentally numeric are kept exactly as they were printed. Converting them would silently change your data.
Are the formulas carried across?
There are none to carry. A PDF stores the values that were printed, not the calculation behind them — that information was lost when the PDF was made.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in this browser tab, on your own machine. There is no server in this product to send a file to, which is why the promise is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust: open your browser's network panel and watch it do the work without making a request.
Is there a size limit, or a limit on how many files?
None that we impose. The limit is your own machine's memory, because that is where the work happens — a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop, and less on a phone. There is no daily task counter, no queue and no account.
What does it cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no paid tier that unlocks features: the whole product is the free one. That is affordable because running it costs us nothing — your computer does the work — so there is no per-file cost to recover, no advertising and no data to sell.