Convert PDF Tables to Excel
Extract tables from PDF files into Excel-ready rows and columns. Detects table structure, handles multi-page documents. Free, in-browser, no upload.
Bank statements, financial reports, inventory lists — the data you need is trapped in PDF tables, and retyping it is the worst part of the job. This extractor detects table structure in PDFs and reconstructs proper rows and columns, ready to paste into Excel or Google Sheets.
Multi-page documents work too: tables continue across pages and merge into one dataset. Extraction runs locally, so confidential statements and internal reports stay on your machine.
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PDF to Excel Converter
Extract tables from PDF files and export as CSV. Table detection based on text positioning — 100% local, no upload.
Table detection uses text positioning heuristics. Scanned PDFs (images) require OCR and may not produce accurate results. For best results, use PDFs with selectable text.
How PDF tables become spreadsheets — illustrated
A PDF table is not a table — it is a scatter of text items, each carrying a string and an(x, y) position from its text matrix. To recover a spreadsheet, this tool clusters items by Y into rows, sorts each row by X into columns, merges cells that are nearly touching, and emits the result as CSV rows and columns. The heuristics handle clean, text-based tables well; scanned pages have no text items to cluster, so they require OCR first.
Rows are recovered from shared Y baselines, columns from left-to-right X order, and cell boundaries from gaps between items. The CSV keeps numeric cells unquoted so Excel imports them as real numbers.
A one-page invoice from a web shop has a 3-column line-item table plus a totals block.
- Read text positions:Each token arrives with (str, x, y) from its text matrix — “Qty” at x=90 y=720, “12” at x=170 y=720
- Group by Y into rows:Items within 3px of the same Y form a row; rows sort top-to-bottom
- Sort by X into columns:Within a row, items sort left-to-right and merge when gaps are under 20px
- Export as CSV:3 columns × 5 rows become Item,Qty,Total lines; numeric cells stay unquoted so Excel treats them as numbers
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Frequently asked questions
How do I copy a table from PDF to Excel?
Drop the PDF in and the extractor finds table regions, reconstructs the grid, and outputs rows and columns you can copy as CSV or download — open it in Excel and the values land in separate cells, not one text blob. Multi-page tables merge automatically.
Why does my extracted table look misaligned?
Some PDFs store tables as positioned text with no real grid, so reconstruction has to infer column boundaries from spacing. Heavily designed layouts with merged cells are the hardest case — the output editor lets you fix individual cells, and clean tabular data (statements, reports) converts accurately.