Convert PDF to Excel

Copying a table out of a PDF usually dumps everything into one column. Retyping a bank statement, price list, inventory report or financial statement is slow and error-prone. This PDF to Excel converter reads the structure of each page instead: where the lines and boxes are, and which piece of text lines up under which column. It then writes a real Excel file (XLSX) with every value in its own cell.

Everything happens in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded. There is no sign-up and no watermark.

A PDF doesn't store tables, only positioned text and lines. The converter looks for two kinds:

• Ruled tables with grid lines or boxed cells. Cell borders are rebuilt from the drawn lines, and where a divider is missing the cells become merged cells in Excel, so a header that spans three columns stays merged.
• Borderless tables where columns are just aligned text, which is common in reports and statements. Columns are found from the alignment and the gaps between values, and text that wraps inside a cell is joined back into one cell.

A table that continues on the next page with the same columns is stitched into one, and a header repeated on every page is kept only once. The header row is made bold, columns are sized to fit their content, and on a sheet with a single table the header is frozen so it stays visible while you scroll.

After the analysis you see a preview of every table with its page, size and type. Untick any that you don't want in the workbook.

Many converters leave numbers as text, so SUM and filters don't work. Here every value is parsed, and numbers become real number cells with a matching format:

In the PDF	In Excel
1,234.56	1234.56 (number with thousands separator)
$1,200	1200 (currency format)
-12.5%	-0.125 (percent format)
(2,100.00)	-2100 (accounting negative)
1.234,56	1234.56 (European style)
00123, ZIP codes, phone numbers	kept as text

The decimal separator is worked out per table, so US and European number styles both come through correctly. Values with leading zeros, ID numbers and phone numbers stay as text so no digit is lost.

Dates stay as text by default, exactly as printed. Turn that option off to get real Excel dates you can sort and filter; 03/15/2026 is read as month/day/year.

• All tables on one sheet: best for one long table that runs over many pages, like a statement or a product list. Tables are separated by a blank row.
• One sheet per table: useful when the PDF holds several different tables (income, expenses, headcount) that you'll work with separately.
• One sheet per page: follows the PDF page by page and can also bring in the text outside the tables, line by line, so titles and footnotes stay in context.

If no table is found at all, each page's text goes onto its own sheet line by line, so nothing is lost.

A scanned PDF contains only pictures of pages. The tool spots this when you open the file and offers OCR (text recognition). Words are recognized in your browser in the language you pick, then the same table detection runs on them. The first run downloads the language data (a few MB). On scanned pages, columns come from alignment only, not from drawn lines.

• Double-check OCR numbers. A blurry 8 can turn into a 3.
• Recalculate totals in Excel. If they don't match, a value landed in the wrong cell.
• Charts and images are not included, and a PDF has no formulas, so you get values.
• Password-protected PDF? Remove the password first with Remove PDF password.

Need editable text instead? PDF to Word turns tables into Word tables.