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Convert PDF to Excel

Drop a PDF and download its tables as an .xlsx. Table detection runs on your device, with no upload.

Detects bordered and cleanly aligned tables. Pages without a table arrive as plain rows in column A.

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About this tool

This tool finds the tables in a PDF and rebuilds them as an Excel spreadsheet, entirely in your browser: the PDF and the .xlsx never leave your device. Bordered tables are detected from their grid lines; borderless tables from the column alignment of the text. Each PDF page becomes its own worksheet, and cells that contain plain numbers become real numeric cells, so formulas like SUM() work on the output immediately.

A PDF doesn't contain tables; it contains characters positioned on a page, and the grid has to be inferred. Cleanly ruled or cleanly aligned tables on digital PDFs reconstruct well. Tables drawn with unusual graphics, merged headers spanning odd ranges, or values that visually straddle columns can land in neighboring cells. Skim the output against the original before relying on it: it's a spreadsheet, so errors are easy to spot and fix.

Pages without a detectable table still arrive as plain rows of text in column A rather than an empty sheet, so nothing silently disappears. Scanned PDFs need the OCR tool first: a scan has no text to extract until OCR writes a text layer into it.

Frequently asked questions

Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. Table detection and the spreadsheet assembly run entirely in your browser. The file's contents never leave your device.
What kinds of tables does it detect?
Two kinds: tables with drawn borders (detected from the grid lines) and borderless tables whose columns are cleanly aligned. Tables drawn as one complex graphic, or with heavily merged cells, may not reconstruct fully in this version.
Do numbers become real Excel numbers?
Plain numbers (including thousands separators and decimals) become numeric cells, so SUM and other formulas work. Currency symbols, percentages, and dates stay as text rather than risking a wrong conversion.
What happens to text that is not in a table?
If a page has a table, the sheet contains just that table. If a page has no detectable table, its text lines are written down column A so the page is never silently dropped.
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Not directly: run the free OCR tool first to add a text layer, then convert the result here. Structure quality on OCR output depends on the scan.

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