Convert PDF to Excel
Rebuild the tables in a text-based PDF as an .xlsx spreadsheet.
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 to Excel
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Add your PDF
Drop the file into the box above, or pick the pages the tables are on.
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Choose the layout
One sheet per page, or every page in a single sheet when a table runs across several.
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Check the grid
The recovered table is shown before you download, so a misread column is obvious immediately.
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Download
Save the .xlsx and open it in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice or Google Sheets.
Frequently asked questions
No. The workbook is built inside your browser, so the document never touches a server — which also means it keeps working offline.
Plain figures do, including thousands separators and the accounting convention of parentheses for negatives, so totals add up. Anything carrying a currency symbol or a percentage stays text: writing £1,800.00 into a cell as 1800 silently throws the unit away, and a wrong number is worse than a number you have to format.
A PDF contains no table — only strings at coordinates. The columns are inferred from where those strings sit, so two columns that nearly touch can merge, and a column of right-aligned numbers can drift. The grid is shown before the download for exactly this reason.
No. A scan has no text positions to work from, only pixels, so there is nothing to rebuild. That needs OCR first.
No. Text cells are written as inline strings, which Excel never evaluates, so a cell that reads =SUM(A1) in the document stays that text in the spreadsheet.