Add your PDF, extract the rows, then download an Excel workbook (.xlsx) — one sheet per page.
Preview (page 1, first rows)
What this tool is for
This tool extracts the text from a PDF row by row and rebuilds it as a table, exportable as an .xlsx file compatible with Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. It's useful for recovering tabular data — invoices, statements, lists — without retyping everything.
Practical use cases
- Recovering old data: get a table back into a spreadsheet when the original file is gone.
- Working with statements: pull a bank or billing table out of a PDF for further analysis.
- Quick edits: convert a PDF table just to sort, filter, or recalculate its values in Excel.
How to use this tool
- Add the PDF file you want to convert.
- Click "Extract table": a preview of the first rows appears.
- Download the result as .xlsx (one sheet per page of the PDF).
Key benefits
- Automatic reconstruction of rows and columns based on text position.
- One Excel sheet per page, keeping multi-page documents readable.
- Nothing is sent to a server — everything happens in your browser.
Practical tips
- Extraction rebuilds a table from the position of the text on the page: it's reliable on simple PDFs (one column per row, aligned text), but imperfect on complex layouts, as with any tool of this kind — a quick check after exporting is worthwhile.
- If the preview shows few or no rows, the PDF is probably a scan or image — try the PDF to PNG tool to view it instead.
- For a simple text export without table reconstruction, the PDF to Text tool may be faster.
Good to know
The table is rebuilt row by row from the coordinates of the extracted text; this isn't true table recognition, so cells can be misaligned on documents with complex layouts (multiple columns, merged cells, overlapping text). For a scanned PDF — an image of text rather than real text — extraction can't recover anything.
Common problems
If columns look shifted or merged incorrectly, the source PDF likely has a complex layout that doesn't map cleanly to rows and columns — a manual cleanup pass in Excel is usually the fastest fix. An empty result almost always means the PDF is a scanned image.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Excel table always accurate?+
Extraction rebuilds a table from the position of the text on the page: it's reliable on simple PDFs (one column per row), but imperfect on complex layouts, as with any tool of this kind.
The scanned PDF produces an empty file — why?+
A scanned PDF is an image of text, not real text: there's nothing to extract without optical character recognition (OCR), which this tool doesn't offer yet.