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PDF to Excel

Extract tables from a text-based PDF into an Excel (.xlsx) spreadsheet — no sign-up, no upload, no file size limit.

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Your files never leave your device. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a server, so there's no file size limit, no subscription, and no one but you ever sees what's in your file.

How it works

Upload a PDF and the tool reads each page's text along with its position, groups nearby text into columns based on horizontal alignment, and writes the result into a spreadsheet — one row per line of the PDF, one column per detected alignment group.

Why this is the hardest tool on this site to get exactly right

A PDF has no real concept of a "table" the way a spreadsheet does — it just places text at coordinates on a page. Reconstructing rows and columns from that is inherently a best guess, which is also why paid tools that do this well typically rely on much heavier machine-learning models running on a server. This tool trades some accuracy for staying fast, free, and entirely private to your device — always review the output before using it for anything important.

Frequently asked questions

What kind of PDFs does this work best on?+

PDFs with an actual grid-like table — invoices, price lists, simple reports with columns of numbers. The tool detects columns by looking at where text is positioned on the page, so it works best when your PDF's table has clean, consistent column alignment.

Will it get my table exactly right?+

Not guaranteed — column detection is a best-effort heuristic based on text position, not a true table-structure reader. Merged cells, multi-line cell content, and inconsistent spacing can throw it off. Always check the result against the original before relying on it, especially for anything you'll do further calculations on.

My PDF isn't a table — can I still use this?+

You can, but expect one very wide column per line rather than a useful grid — this tool is specifically built for tabular data. For general text, use PDF to Word instead.

Why did I get an empty or near-empty spreadsheet?+

This tool reads the text layer already embedded in the PDF. If your PDF is a scanned image with no underlying text, there's nothing for it to read — try the OCR PDF tool first to pull out the text, then bring that into a spreadsheet manually.

Keep a backup of your original file. This tool processes everything locally in your browser, and we've tested it carefully — but no conversion tool handles every PDF perfectly. Always keep your original file and double-check important results before relying on them.