PDF to Excel
Extract tables from a PDF into an .xlsx workbook entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server.
Frequently asked questions
- How does PDF to Excel work?
- The converter reads the PDF's text layer in your browser, clusters the text into rows by vertical position, then finds column boundaries by looking for horizontal gaps wider than the typical character width. Each page with a detected table becomes one worksheet in the downloaded .xlsx file.
- Are my files uploaded anywhere?
- No. PDF to Excel runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device. That matters for bank statements, invoices and payroll tables, which are the documents people most often need to get into a spreadsheet.
- Can I convert a bank statement PDF to Excel?
- Usually, with one step first. A statement downloaded from net banking is generated as text, not scanned, so it carries the text layer this converter reads. If your statement only opens after you type a password, the converter cannot read it at all, because pdfjs refuses an encrypted file before any extraction happens. Remove the password with the Unlock PDF tool linked below, then convert the unlocked copy. A statement you photographed or received as a scan has no text layer and will not convert. How cleanly the rows and columns land depends on the statement's layout, not on which bank issued it, so read the table-detection answer below before trusting the output. Nothing is uploaded at any stage, which matters more here than on most documents.
- Will it work on a scanned PDF?
- No. A scanned page is an image with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract and the converter will tell you so rather than producing an empty file. Run OCR first to add a text layer, then convert.
- How accurate is the table detection?
- It is a heuristic, not a layout engine. Clean tables with consistent column spacing convert well. Merged cells, nested tables, multi-line cells and columns separated by less than about two and a half characters of space are where it degrades — you may get cells joined or split in the wrong place. Check the output against the source before relying on it.
- Are numbers imported as numbers?
- Yes, but conservatively. A cell becomes a numeric cell only when its text round-trips exactly through a number conversion and fits inside 15 significant digits. Values like 007, 1.50 and 12/05/2026 stay as text so leading zeros, trailing decimals and dates are not silently rewritten by the spreadsheet. Anything longer than 15 digits stays text too, because Excel keeps only 15 significant digits and zeroes the rest — that is what would otherwise turn a 16-digit card or account number into a wrong one.
- What is not carried over?
- Formatting, colours, merged cells, images and formulas are not carried over — the output is plain cell values, one sheet per page. Formulas do not exist in a PDF to begin with, since a PDF stores the rendered result rather than the calculation.