Convert PDF to CSV
Rebuild the tables in a text-based PDF as comma-separated values.
Drop your PDF here
PDF · up to 100 MB · rebuilds tables from the text already in the file
Processed in your browser. This file never leaves your device.
How to convert a PDF table to CSV
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Add your PDF
Drop the file into the box above, or pick the pages the table is on.
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Extract
The columns are worked out from where the text sits on each page.
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Check the grid
The recovered table is shown before you download, so you can see whether the columns landed correctly.
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Download
Save one CSV for the document, or one per page.
Frequently asked questions
No. The whole conversion runs inside your browser, so the document never touches a server — which also means it keeps working offline.
Because a PDF has no table in it. It stores strings at coordinates, and the columns you see are an inference from those positions. Ruled lines, merged cells and columns that nearly touch are where the guess breaks down — which is why the grid is shown before you download rather than after.
A scan is a picture of a page: there are no text positions to work from, only pixels. That needs OCR first, which recognises the characters and adds a text layer.
One file when the same table continues across pages — the rows join up. One per page when each page holds a different table, which keeps their columns from being forced to match.
The CSV is written with a byte-order mark. Without one, Excel on Windows guesses the encoding and mangles anything outside plain ASCII.