I need to get a table out of a PDF into Excel
Stop retyping figures. Convert the PDF's tables into a spreadsheet you can sort, total and edit.
To reuse a PDF's table, convert the PDF to Excel: the tool detects the rows and columns and rebuilds them as an editable spreadsheet, so you don't retype anything. Our PDF to Excel tool does this in your browser. It works best on genuine text-based tables. A scanned image of a table needs OCR first to become recognisable text.
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Each one is free, private and runs in your browser. No sign-up, no watermark.
PDF to Excel
Extract tables from a PDF into an editable spreadsheet, fix any cells, then download a real Excel.xlsx (or CSV). Best-effort, position-based table detection. Works best on clean tabular PDFs. Nothing is uploaded.
PDF to Word
Turn a PDF into an editable Microsoft Word (.docx) document, text extracted into clean, editable paragraphs, entirely in your browser with no upload.
CSV Viewer
View CSV files online as a fast, sortable spreadsheet, search across every cell, sort any column, and read a live per-column profile with row/column counts and numeric stats. Read-only, so you never touch the data. Nothing is uploaded.
Excel to CSV
Convert Excel to CSV in your browser. Drop an.xlsx or.xls, pick the sheet you want and download a clean, correctly-quoted CSV. Multi-sheet workbooks, commas inside cells and quoted fields are all handled. Nothing is uploaded.
How to fix it
Follow these steps and you'll have it sorted in a couple of minutes.
- 1
Open the PDF to Excel tool
Drop your PDF in: it's processed in your browser, never uploaded.
- 2
Convert the tables
The tool detects the table structure and rebuilds it as spreadsheet rows and columns.
- 3
Open and tidy
Open the result in your spreadsheet app and fix any cells that merged or split awkwardly.
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Use the data
Sort, total and chart the figures, or export to CSV for another system.
- Expecting perfect results from a scanned PDF, that's an image. Run OCR first so the numbers are real text.
- Assuming complex, multi-header tables convert flawlessly. Some manual cleanup of merged cells is normal.
- Retyping a whole table by hand when a conversion gets you 90% of the way in seconds.
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Ran into one of these too? Here's the fix.
- I need to turn a PDF into an editable Word documentNeed to reuse the text or make big changes? Convert the PDF to Word, edit in a familiar app, and convert back if you need a PDF again.
- I need to convert an Excel spreadsheet to PDFSend a spreadsheet that keeps its layout and can't be edited, ideal for reports, invoices and quotes.
- I can't open or read a large CSV fileWhen a CSV is too large or messy for Excel, view it as a clean table you can search and sort: privately.
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