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Pull tabular data out of a PDF and into an Excel workbook. Upload a file, and each page with a recognised table becomes its own worksheet that you can sort, total and chart.

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Tables only, and layouts can shift. Scanned PDFs and complex layouts may not convert perfectly. Only pages containing detectable tables become worksheets; pages without a recognised table are left out.
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How to use this tool

  1. Choose a PDF with real tables. Digital statements, invoices and reports work best. A photograph or scan of a table has no text for the converter to read.
  2. Upload and convert. Press the button and keep the tab open. The PDF travels over HTTPS and the workbook comes back to this page.
  3. Inspect every worksheet. Pages that contain a detectable table get their own sheet. Confirm that headings, dates and negative values landed in the right columns.
  4. Download and clean up. Save the XLSX, then convert any text-formatted numbers, reapply number formats and rebuild totals before using the data.

Why use this tool

Statements and reports are published as PDFs because the layout stays fixed, not because the data is meant to stay trapped there. Rekeying a year of transactions or a supplier price list is slow and easy to get wrong, and copying from the PDF viewer often pastes one ragged line per cell.

This converter looks for the structure inside the document and writes each detected table into a worksheet. The result is a practical starting point for sorting, filtering and formulas rather than a guaranteed replica. Treat the first pass as data capture: scan for shifted columns, check the totals against the PDF, and then build your analysis on values you have verified.

Frequently asked questions

Why are some pages missing from the workbook?
Only pages containing a detectable table become worksheets. A page of prose, a cover page or a table drawn as a picture has no rows and columns to extract, so it is left out rather than creating an empty sheet.
Will merged cells and formatting be preserved?
Sometimes, but not reliably. Merged headers, wrapped text and coloured cells may be approximated or split apart. Check the column headings and numeric formats before using the sheet for calculations.
Can it extract a table from a scanned PDF?
Usually not. A scan is an image, and the service needs real text and ruling lines inside the PDF to find a table. Run OCR on the scan first, or use the original digital document if one exists.
Is my PDF deleted after conversion?
Yes. The uploaded PDF and the generated workbook are removed from the server within 15 minutes. No permanent copy is created.
Why do some numbers appear as text?
The PDF stores the characters, not the spreadsheet data type. Values written with spaces, currency symbols or trailing units may arrive as text. Convert those columns to numbers in Excel after checking the decimal separator.