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PDF to Excel

Extract tabular content from a PDF into an Excel workbook (one sheet per page). Best for text-based PDFs with structured tables.

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About this tool

Pulling tabular data out of a PDF and into a spreadsheet used to mean retyping every row by hand. Our PDF to Excel converter reads the text and positional data from your PDF and reconstructs each page as a worksheet in an .xlsx file you can open in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or LibreOffice Calc.

The conversion runs entirely in your browser using PDF.js. Cells are inferred from text x/y coordinates, so cleanly structured tables — financial statements, price lists, exported reports — convert excellently. Multi-column layouts with mixed content may need light cleanup after import.

Because everything is local, this is safe for sensitive numbers: bank statements, payroll reports, sales data, or research figures that shouldn't be uploaded.

Why use it

  • One worksheet per PDF page in a single .xlsx file.
  • Output works in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, and Calc.
  • 100% browser-based — financial data never leaves your device.
  • Free with no row or page limit.

How to use it

  1. 1
    Drop your PDF

    Add a PDF whose pages contain tabular text.

  2. 2
    Click Convert to Excel

    We extract text positions and assemble one sheet per page.

  3. 3
    Open the .xlsx

    Save the file and open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or LibreOffice Calc.

Common use cases

  • Importing a bank or credit card statement for budgeting analysis.
  • Building a pivot table from an exported financial report.
  • Extracting price lists or catalog rows for a comparison spreadsheet.
  • Recovering data when the original spreadsheet is lost.
  • Feeding research data into your own analysis pipeline.

Tips for best results

Clean PDFs convert best

Single-column tables with consistent row spacing produce the cleanest output. Complex multi-column reports may need post-processing.

Image-based PDFs need OCR

If the PDF was scanned and contains no real text layer, run it through OCR first or use a different workflow.

Spot-check the totals

Always verify a couple of column sums after import to make sure no cells shifted columns.

Related tools

PDF to Word →

For prose, not tables.

Split PDF →

Extract just the page with the table.

Merge PDF →

Bundle table pages before converting.

Frequently asked questions

How well does it detect tables?

We group text by line position and column. Cleanly tabular PDFs convert excellently; complex multi-column reports may need light cleanup.