PDF to Excel: a practical guide

A PDF table is drawn, not stored: the columns are positions, not cells. This tool reads those positions back into rows and columns, and writes them as an Excel workbook so the data can be filtered, totalled and charted. Complex merged cells may need a quick tidy, but the bulk of the work is done for you.

A PDF table is drawn, not stored: the columns are positions, not cells. This tool reads those positions back into rows and columns, and writes them as an Excel workbook so the data can be filtered, totalled and charted. Complex merged cells may need a quick tidy, but the bulk of the work is done for you.

How to use it: Choose the PDF that contains your tables. Then Click "Convert to Excel" to run the layout detection. Then Download the .xlsx workbook with one sheet per table. Then Open it in Excel or Google Sheets to work with the numbers..

One worksheet per detected table. Formulas recalculate inside Excel. Built for invoices and statements. No Office installation needed.

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Convert PDF to Excel Spreadsheet — Convert PDF tables and statements into a live Excel workbook.