Convert PDF to Excel
Convert PDF documents to Excel format (XLSX). Upload a PDF file to create an Excel spreadsheet.
Combine multiple PDFs into one
Split a PDF into separate files
Reorder pages by dragging
Pull specific pages out
Pull all images out
Remove pages from PDF
Rotate pages in any direction
Stack one PDF onto another
Reduce PDF file size
Clean up unused data
Make scanned text searchable
Spot the differences between two PDFs
Add text, signatures, shapes
Add your signature anywhere
Add text or image watermark
Number pages as 1, i or A
Add sticky-note comments
Ready-to-use forms to fill online
Add a password
Unlock a PDF with its password
Black out sensitive info
Editable .docx export
Tables as .xlsx
Each page as a JPG
Each page as a PNG
Each page as a WebP
Turn JPG images into a PDF
Turn PNG images into a PDF
Combine JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP into one PDF
Convert .docx to PDF
Convert .xlsx to PDF
Convert .pptx to PDF
Turn an HTML file into a PDF
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PDF to Excel with every table on its own sheet
The converter reads the PDF's text layer page by page, looks for tables on each page and copies every table it finds, row by row, into a worksheet of its own. Rows that are completely empty are skipped, so blank spacer rows don't end up in your data. The sheets follow the order of the tables in the PDF, page by page and top to bottom, so you can convert a PDF to an Excel spreadsheet and extract data from PDF to Excel without retyping a single figure.
Drop several PDFs at once and each becomes its own XLSX, named after its PDF and delivered together in a ZIP such as converted-excel-3.zip. A file that fails is listed by name while the rest still convert.
How a PDF table becomes an Excel sheet
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Found by their lines
Lines have to run both ways, between the rows and between the columns. A table set out with spacing, or ruled only under each row, isn't read as a table.
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One sheet per table
Sheets are named after where each table was found: Page 2 Table 1, Page 2 Table 2 and so on.
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Split page by page
A table that runs over several pages is saved as one sheet per page. If it repeats its header row on each page, every sheet starts with it.
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Extracted Text as a fallback
When no table turns up anywhere in the file, one sheet lists every line of text with its page and line number instead.
Need the text around the tables?
Once a table is found, text outside tables stays out of the workbook. PDF to Word keeps the paragraphs as well and rebuilds tables as Word tables.
What the cells hold after a PDF to XLSX conversion
Each cell gets the text printed in that cell of the PDF, and nothing more. Fonts, colours, borders and column widths don't come across, and there are no formulas: totals arrive as the figures that were printed. Dates stay exactly as written, such as 03/04/2025, rather than becoming Excel dates, so set the column format before sorting by date.
Cells that are empty in the PDF stay empty, so every value keeps its column and lines up with its header. A merged cell puts its value in the first cell and leaves the cells it covered empty; check headings that spanned several columns before you sort or filter.
The Extracted Text sheet starts with the headings Page, Line and Text. A page without any text still gets a row with its number, which shows at a glance which pages were empty.
PDF to Excel questions
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Each cell holds exactly what the PDF shows, so 1,250.00 or €40 arrive as text, separators and currency signs included. In Excel, convert the column to numbers before you add it up or chart it.
Files exported straight from a spreadsheet or an accounting program, with a ruled grid and real text. Statements, invoices and price lists drawn that way come through cleanly; reports that line up columns with spacing give the converter nothing to follow. If a file you expected to work gives only an Extracted Text sheet, no ruled table was found in it.
Not into cells. A scan holds pictures of text and this converter doesn't read text from images, so scanned pages come out empty. OCR PDF reads the words out of a scan as plain text. Paste it into a sheet and use Text to Columns in Excel to split it into cells.
Always XLSX, named after your PDF: the format Excel has used by default since 2007. If you need the older XLS, use Save As in Excel.
Each file gets up to six minutes. A long report with hundreds of pages can run out of time and stop with an error; split it with Split PDF and convert the parts.
Not directly: every table gets its own sheet, so tables with different columns never collide. Copy the sheets you need onto one in Excel afterwards: parts of a table split across pages share their columns and can simply be pasted under each other.
It stays in one cell, with a line break where the PDF started a new line. Turn on Wrap Text in Excel to see every line; sorting and filtering treat the cell as one value.
No, each PDF becomes its own XLSX. To get the tables of several files into one workbook, join the PDFs with Merge PDF first and convert the merged file.