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PDF to Excel
Convert PDF tables to editable Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx).
Convert PDF tables to editable Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx).
Drop a PDF to convert to Excel
or click to browse files
Converting a PDF to Excel extracts tabular data from the document and places it into a structured spreadsheet where each cell can be edited, formatted, and used in formulas. This is essential for working with financial reports, invoices, price lists, and any data that arrives as a PDF but needs to be analysed.
The conversion uses LibreOffice to identify table boundaries by detecting grid lines, white space patterns, and text alignment. Once the table structure is recognised, the row and column layout is reconstructed in the XLSX output. Each detected table is placed into its own worksheet for easy navigation.
Text-based PDFs — documents created digitally in a word processor, accounting software, or data export — convert with the highest accuracy because text positions are precisely defined in the PDF structure. Scanned PDFs require an OCR pass first to identify text before table extraction can proceed.
After extracting your data, use standard Excel features to clean, sort, filter, and analyse the numbers. For PDFs containing charts or graphs rather than raw tables, consider using the PDF to JPG tool to capture the visual, then manually recreate the chart in Excel.
The PDF is converted to an XLSX spreadsheet using LibreOffice. Tables and structured data are extracted as editable cells.
Text-based PDFs with clear table structure convert best. Scanned PDFs may require manual cleanup after conversion.
Scanned PDFs require OCR before table extraction. Use the PDF OCR tool first to add a text layer, then convert the searchable PDF to Excel.
Each table detected in the PDF is placed into a separate worksheet in the Excel output. Tables spanning multiple pages are concatenated into a single sheet.