PDF to Excel
Extract PDF text into a simple XLSX worksheet.
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Extract PDF text into a simple XLSX worksheet.
About PDF to Excel
PDF to Excel extracts the text from each page of a PDF into a worksheet in an .xlsx file, starting a new cell wherever it finds a wide gap in a line. It can save some retyping, but PDFs don't store tables as rows and columns, only text placed at positions, so expect to tidy up the result.
When it helps
- Getting figures from a PDF statement or report into a spreadsheet as a starting point
- Collecting the text of a price list so you can search and filter it
- Moving data out of a PDF when the original spreadsheet isn't available
Tips
- Often a whole page lands in one row or a few long cells. Use Excel's Text to Columns, or Data then Split in Google Sheets, to break it into proper columns.
- Scanned PDFs contain no extractable text, so the sheet will be nearly empty. This tool has no OCR.
- If the PDF was exported from a spreadsheet, ask the sender for the original XLSX or CSV. It will always be more accurate than extraction.
Good to know
Quick answers about pdf to excel in your browser.
A PDF records where each piece of text is drawn, not which cell it belongs to. This tool's table detection is a simple gap-based heuristic, so complex tables usually need manual splitting.
Extracted values are written as text cells, so you may need to convert columns to numbers in Excel before doing calculations.
Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many files you process.
No. Files are read and processed locally in your browser, so they never leave your device.
Table detection is heuristic; complex layouts are simplified.
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