PDF tool
Convert PDF to Excel
Get the tables out of a PDF and into cells you can sort, sum and filter — one sheet per table, with columns preserved. Free, no account, no watermark. This works on real PDFs with a text layer, not on scans.
- 100% free
- No signup
- Batch convert
Drop your PDF files here
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Supports PDF · Max 30 MB per file · Up to 100 files
You can also paste a copied image with Ctrl+V / ⌘V
- Secure & privateYour files are never shared
- Lightning fastMost images in under a second
- High qualitymozjpeg and libvips under the hood
- Works everywhereAny device, any browser
Input, output and limits
Every figure below is read from the same configuration the server enforces, so this page cannot promise a limit the system will refuse.
- Input formats
- application/pdf
- Output format
- application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
- Maximum file size
- 30 MB per file
- Batch processing
- Yes — several files at once, downloaded as one ZIP
- Price
- Free, with no account and no watermark
- Processing
- On our own server, then deleted automatically
- Engine
- pdfplumber with python-docx and openpyxl (MIT)
- File retention
- Upload and result both deleted after 24 hours
Output quality
Tables are located by looking for the ruling lines and the column alignment on each page, then rebuilt cell by cell into a real worksheet — values land in individual cells, so sorting, summing and filtering work immediately, and column widths are set from the content so nothing shows as a row of hashes. Tables with visible borders are detected most reliably; tables held together only by whitespace are the harder case and are where a column occasionally splits in the wrong place. Everything arrives as text or numbers, never as an image of a table. Two limits stated plainly: cells merged across columns in the original are flattened into the leftmost cell, and a table running across a page break is extracted as two separate tables, because on the page that is genuinely what it is. Always check a total against the PDF before relying on the numbers — that is good practice with any extraction tool, including the paid ones.
See what this tool actually did to real files — median size change, speed and sample size, published whichever way the numbers fall.
Common use cases
Getting a bank or card statement into a spreadsheet
Transactions land in rows and columns, ready to categorise and total.
Reusing figures from a published report
Far faster and far less error-prone than retyping a table of numbers by hand.
Building a comparison from several supplier quotes
Extract each quote and paste the sheets side by side.
Recovering data when the original spreadsheet is gone
The exported PDF is often the only copy left, and the values are still in there.
Troubleshooting
- A column split in the wrong place
- The table has no ruling lines, so the boundary was inferred from spacing. Excel's Data → Text to Columns will fix the affected column in a few seconds.
- One table arrived as two sheets
- It runs across a page break, and each page is analysed on its own. Paste the second sheet under the first and delete the repeated header row.
- I only got a sheet of text lines
- No table structure was detected — usually a layout that looks tabular to a human but has no lines or consistent column alignment. Text to Columns on the space or tab delimiter is the fastest route from there.
Something else went wrong? Tell us what happened — a person reads every report, and that is how this list gets longer.
Privacy and file deletion
- Stored under a random nameUploads have no connection to the file name you sent and are never served from a public directory. This tool accepts files up to 30 MB, several at a time.
- Deleted on a timerUploads are removed within 2 hours and finished results within 24 hours, whichever comes first.
- Nobody looks at themNo one browses uploads, nothing is shared with third parties, and no file is used to train anything. The only thing kept past deletion is the size and timing of the job.
- Encrypted in transitEvery request runs over HTTPS, so the file is encrypted between your device and our server.
Full privacy policyHow the system is builtWhat we measure, and why it is kept
Frequently asked questions
Browse pdf toolsHow are the sheets organised?
One sheet per table found, named by the page it came from — Trang3-1 is the first table on page three. That keeps a twenty-page report with a table on every page navigable, instead of stacking everything into one sheet where you cannot tell where one table ends and the next begins.
What if my PDF has no tables?
You still get something usable: the text is written line by line into a single sheet rather than handing you an empty workbook. It is not a table, but it is a starting point you can split into columns.
Why is my scanned PDF rejected?
A scan is an image of a page. There are no characters to read, so there is nothing to put in a cell, and we say so instead of returning an empty spreadsheet. Extracting numbers from a scan needs OCR, which we do not offer yet.
Do formulas come back?
No, and they cannot. A PDF only stores the printed result — the formula that produced 1,240 was lost when the original spreadsheet was exported. You get the values, which you can then build new formulas on top of.
Is my PDF uploaded?
Yes. Unlike our browser-based PDF tools, table detection needs libraries that cannot run in a tab. Your file is stored under a random name, is never read by a person, and is deleted within 24 hours.
What happens to the images I upload in a batch?
Files up to 30 MB are accepted, and a batch is handled as separate jobs that are zipped together at the end. Every upload is stored under a random name, never served from a public folder, and deleted 24 hours after the job starts — the finished file goes at the same moment. We never share them and there is no account they could be tied to. The one thing we do is compare the original against the result in our own admin area, to be sure the compression has not softened the picture.