Pull a table out of a PDF into a spreadsheet, with the grid shown before you download
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Converting a PDF to Excel reads where every character sits on the page and rebuilds that as a grid: shared baselines make the rows, the white space running down the page makes the columns. Ruled tables convert well, merged and wrapped cells do not, and 3 files of 200 pages each are read on your own device.
Press Select PDF files and choose the PDF with the table.
Under Sheets choose Automatic, One sheet or Sheet per page.
Keep Read amounts as numbers and First row is a header on, and check the grid in the preview.
Press Convert to Excel, then Download .xlsx; the file is read on your device.
PDF to Excel turns the tables printed in a PDF into an .xlsx workbook you can sort, filter and total. A bank statement, a GST return, a price list or a fee schedule comes across as rows and columns instead of text you would otherwise retype line by line.
How it works is worth knowing, because it decides when the result is trustworthy. A PDF does not contain a table. It contains characters, each with a position, and a table is something a reader infers from where the empty space is. This tool makes the same inference twice: characters sharing a baseline become a row, and the vertical corridors of white space that run the height of the page become the column boundaries. Alignment does not matter, so a right-aligned column of amounts and a left-aligned column of dates are both found.
The inference fails in four ways, and the page lists them above the button rather than after the download. A merged cell spanning three columns lands in one of them. A cell whose text wraps onto a second line becomes a second row, because nothing in the file says that line belongs above. Two tables on one page are measured together and come out as one grid. A scanned PDF holds a picture of a table and no text at all, so it produces nothing; the page detects that and points at Image to Text instead of handing back an empty sheet.
That is why the detected grid is shown on screen before the download exists. Check a row you know against the PDF, and only then trust a total.
Everything runs in your browser. The file is never uploaded, which matters for a statement carrying your account number. Up to 3 PDFs, each 50 MB and 200 pages. To go the other way, use Excel to PDF.
Usually on a ruled table, and the page shows you before you download. Column boundaries are worked out from the white space running down the page, which is an inference rather than something the PDF states. The preview draws the grid that was detected, so check one row you know against the PDF first.
No. A scanned or photographed table is an image, so there is no text to position and nothing to put in a sheet. The tool detects this and says so instead of handing back an empty spreadsheet. Use Image to Text to recognise the characters first, then paste the result into a sheet.
Yes, and statements are the case this handles best, because they are printed as ruled tables with one transaction per line. Pages of the same statement are stacked onto one sheet and the header repeated at the top of page two is dropped. Nothing is uploaded, so an account number never leaves your device.
Because a cell wrapped onto a second line. A PDF records the second line at its own baseline and says nothing about which cell it belongs to, so it becomes its own row. Rows that leave a column empty are counted and reported above the preview, which is where wrapped cells show up.
Yes, when they are printed plainly. Figures such as 1,240.50 and 12,34,567.89 become real numbers, and brackets are read as a negative. Anything ambiguous stays text exactly as printed: a currency symbol, a date, a Cr or Dr suffix, and any number with a leading zero, such as an account number Excel would otherwise round.
Neither survives. A merged heading spanning three columns lands in one of them, and two tables on one page are measured together, so their columns are combined into a single grid. Splitting those pages out first, with Split PDF, gives a much better result than converting the whole document at once.
No. The PDF is read and the workbook is written by code running in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored and no account is needed. Turn your connection off after the page loads and the conversion still works, which is the simplest way to prove it to yourself.
PDF ko Excel me badle: drop the file, check the grid the preview draws, then download the .xlsx. Ruled tables convert well; merged cells, wrapped lines and two tables on one page do not, and a scanned PDF gives nothing because it holds a picture rather than text.
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