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PDF to Excel

PDF to Excel lifts tables out of PDF files and rebuilds them as real .xlsx worksheets — rows, columns, and numeric values intact. It's for the all-too-common situation where the data you need is trapped in a PDF.

When to use it

Bank or credit-card statements in PDF, vendor price lists, reports with data tables, government tables — anything where you'd otherwise retype numbers into a spreadsheet. If the PDF has visible tables, this tool saves the retyping.

How to use it

1. Open PDF to Excel and upload the PDF.
2. The tool detects tables on each page and reconstructs them as worksheet rows and columns.
3. Review the preview — check that columns didn't merge and totals look right.
4. Download the .xlsx file. One PDF = one document of quota.

What the output looks like

An Excel workbook with the detected tables as worksheets — one sheet per table or per page depending on layout. Amounts come through as numbers, so formulas work immediately.

Good to know

• Ruled tables extract best. Tables with visible gridlines convert cleanly; tables implied only by spacing are harder and may need column fixes.
• Scanned PDFs (images of pages) must go through Searchable PDF first — there's no text to lift until OCR runs.
• Multi-page tables that continue across pages usually reconstruct as one continuous table, but verify the seam rows.
• Footnotes, headers, and page numbers sometimes land in the table as stray rows. Delete them in Excel.
• Complex layouts — nested tables, merged header cells, rotated text — are the hardest case. Simple grid tables are the easiest.

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