Extract text and tables from PDF files and convert them to Excel XLSX spreadsheets. Each page becomes a separate sheet. Runs entirely in your browser.
PDF to Excel
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Text-based PDFs only. Column alignment uses position heuristics — simple tables convert well, complex layouts may need manual cleanup.
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Text-based PDF (not scanned)
PDF to Excel pulls the numbers and text out of a PDF and rebuilds them as rows and columns in an editable XLSX spreadsheet. It exists for a very specific moment: someone hands you a financial statement, a bank statement, an invoice, or a data report as a PDF, and you need those figures in a spreadsheet to recalculate a total, build a chart, or import them into another system — without retyping every cell by hand.
The reason this is genuinely hard, and not just a formatting exercise, is that a PDF has no concept of a "table" or a "cell" anywhere in its file format. It only knows that certain characters were painted at certain X/Y coordinates on the page. There is no row object, no column object, no cell boundary — just text positioned in space, the same way it would be if you dropped individual sticky notes onto a page. Reconstructing a table means inferring structure that was never explicitly stored: which pieces of text share a horizontal line and therefore belong to the same row, and which vertical bands of positions repeat down the page and therefore represent a column.
This tool does that inference by reading every text fragment's coordinates, grouping fragments into rows when their vertical position falls within a few points of each other, then looking at where text clusters horizontally across the whole page to guess where column boundaries fall. Tables that were drawn with visible ruling lines and consistent column widths — the kind you see in bank statements and structured reports — extract cleanly because the text naturally lines up. Borderless tables, tables with merged cells, or layouts where a caption or footnote breaks the usual column rhythm are harder, because the same coordinate logic that finds real columns can also misread stray text as an extra one.
None of this works on a scanned page. A scanned invoice or statement is a photograph of text, not real text — there are no coordinates to read at all until an OCR pass converts the pixels into characters. If your PDF is a scan, running it through an OCR tool first is the only way this converter (or any table extractor) can find anything to place into a spreadsheet.
The PDF is opened with pdfjs-dist and, page by page, every text fragment is read along with its X and Y coordinates on the page. Fragments are sorted by vertical position and grouped into rows whenever their Y-coordinates fall within roughly four points of each other — close enough to be on the same printed line. All the X-coordinates seen across the page are then clustered into column buckets, spaced about ten points apart, so that text repeatedly appearing near the same horizontal position is recognized as belonging to one column rather than several. Each row's fragments are dropped into their nearest column bucket to build a two-dimensional grid, and that grid is written into a worksheet with SheetJS — the same open-source library used by countless spreadsheet tools. Every PDF page produces its own worksheet in the output workbook, and the entire pipeline runs inside your browser tab with nothing sent to a server.
Upload your PDF
Drop a PDF containing a financial statement, invoice, or any tabular data onto the upload area. Text-based PDFs work — scanned pages need OCR first.
Note the accuracy notice
The banner above the upload zone explains that column alignment uses position heuristics: simple ruled tables convert cleanly, complex layouts may need cleanup.
Click "Convert to Excel"
The tool processes each page in turn, showing a live progress bar with the page count and a percentage as it extracts text and infers rows and columns.
Download happens automatically
As soon as the workbook is built, your browser downloads the .xlsx file. Use "Download again" if you need a second copy.
Open the workbook
Load the file in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc — each PDF page appears as its own named worksheet.
Check and clean up the data
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Column Detection Heuristics
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One Sheet Per Page
Each PDF page becomes a separate Excel worksheet, keeping multi-page tables organized and easy to navigate.
SheetJS-Powered Output
Output uses SheetJS (xlsx library) to generate a proper .xlsx file compatible with Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc.
Fully Private Processing
All text extraction and spreadsheet assembly runs in your browser — no file is ever sent to a server.
No Page Limit
Convert PDFs with dozens or hundreds of pages, each landing in its own named sheet in the resulting workbook.
Free to Start — Sign Up for More
Use free with no account for files up to 40 MB. Sign up free to raise your limit to 80 MB, or upgrade to Pro for 250 MB per file.
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