PDF to Excel
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A PDF does not contain a table. It contains words at coordinates, and every converter that claims otherwise is guessing where the columns were — which is why the output so often needs more repair than retyping would. This tool shows you the guess and lets you correct it: vertical guides sit over the page, you drag them until each column has its own strip, and the table underneath rebuilds as you go. When it looks right, download it as .xlsx or .csv. The whole thing runs on your own machine, so a document you would not email to a stranger does not have to be sent to one.
How to use PDF to Excel
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Drop the PDF in. The text is read on your device and drawn where it actually sits on the page.
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Drag the red guides until each column falls in its own strip. Add or remove guides as the table needs, and watch the preview below update.
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Download the result as .xlsx or .csv. The guides apply to every page, so a table spanning ten of them is lined up once.
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Frequently asked questions
Why do I have to move the guides myself?+
Because the automatic guess is only ever a guess. Columns in a PDF are separated by nothing but whitespace, so the detection looks for vertical strips no text ever crosses — and a single long description spilling into the next column closes that strip and hides the boundary. Fixing it takes one drag, which is a lot cheaper than discovering afterwards that half the amounts landed in the description column.
Why does the preview show boxes instead of the actual page?+
Because those boxes are what the extractor can see. A rendered page shows ruled lines, shading and logos that play no part in the extraction, while hiding exactly how wide each piece of text is. The tinted boxes are each text run at its measured size, so the empty channels between them are the real column gaps you are aligning to.
Which column does a long phrase end up in?+
The one it starts in. A description that overhangs into the next column still belongs to its own, which keeps the rule predictable while you are dragging — you can always see the overhang and decide whether to move the guide.
It found no text at all. What went wrong?+
The PDF is almost certainly a scan. A scanned page is a photograph of a document: there are no words in the file, only a picture of them, so there is nothing to extract. It needs OCR first, which is a different job from this one.
Do the amounts come out as numbers I can add up?+
Yes, if you leave "convert amounts to numbers" on. $1,234.56 becomes 1234.56 and (45.00) becomes −45, which is the accounting convention for a negative. Dates, account numbers and reference codes are deliberately left exactly as printed, because a reference silently turning into a number is worse than a total you have to convert yourself.
Is the file uploaded?+
No. It is opened, read and rebuilt entirely in your browser. That matters more here than on most tools, because the PDFs people want as spreadsheets are bank statements, invoices and payroll reports — the documents whose whole point is that they are nobody else's business.