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PDF to Excel, and Excel to PDF

Lift text and table-like rows out of a PDF into a spreadsheet, or turn an Excel or CSV file into a tidy PDF — pick a direction below.

Drop a PDF here, or click to choose one
Each page becomes its own sheet, split into rows and columns
🔒 Conversion happens entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded to a server.

How it works

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Choose a direction

PDF to Excel reads text positions; Excel to PDF reads a spreadsheet.

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Drop in your file

Rows and columns are worked out from spacing, or read straight from your sheet.

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Download the result

An .xlsx workbook with one sheet per page, or a formatted PDF.

Pulling tables out of a PDF, locally

Invoices, reports and statements often lock genuinely tabular data inside a PDF, where it can't be sorted, filtered or recalculated. This tool looks at the spacing between text on each line to detect column breaks, then rebuilds that structure as a spreadsheet — all processed in your browser, so financial documents don't need to pass through a third-party upload first.

This column-detection approach works well for genuinely tabular PDFs like invoices or price lists, but plain paragraph text won't split into meaningful columns, and a scanned PDF with no real text layer can't be read at all. Converting the other way, from Excel to PDF, keeps the calculated values from formulas but not the formulas themselves, since the output is a static, printable table.

Common uses: pulling line items out of an invoice PDF for bookkeeping, getting a price list into a spreadsheet for comparison, or turning a finished spreadsheet into a PDF to send to someone else. For PDFs that are mostly paragraphs rather than tables, PDF to Word is the better tool.

Frequently asked

How accurate is PDF to Excel at detecting columns?

It looks at the horizontal spacing between text on each line to guess column breaks, which works well for genuinely tabular PDFs like invoices or reports, but plain paragraph text won't split into meaningful columns.

Can this read scanned PDFs?

No — it reads the text layer already inside the PDF, so a PDF that's just a scanned image with no embedded text won't produce usable data.

Does Excel to PDF keep my formulas?

Formula results are included since the tool reads calculated values, but the formulas themselves aren't shown — the PDF is a static, printable table.

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