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How to convert PDF to Excel

Retyping numbers from a PDF is slow and error-prone. Converting a PDF to Excel pulls the tabular data into a spreadsheet you can sort, total and analyse.

This guide shows how to extract tables from PDFs into editable Excel files for free.

Open the PDF to Excel tool

Extract tables from PDF to Excel

Tables are detected and rebuilt as spreadsheet cells you can work with.

  1. 1Open the PDF to Excel tool.
  2. 2Drop your PDF or click to select it.
  3. 3Click Convert to Excel.
  4. 4Download the XLSX and work with your data in Excel or Google Sheets.

What converts best

Well-structured tables in text-based PDFs convert most accurately.

PDFs generated from spreadsheets typically extract perfectly.

Scanned or image-based PDFs need OCR to read the text first — this is on our roadmap.

Frequently asked questions

Ready to try it?

Extract tables from PDFs into editable Excel spreadsheets.

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