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PDF to Excel

Take the tables out of a PDF into an Excel file, numbers kept as numbers, on your device. Free, with no account or uploads.

Get the PDF's tables as an Excel file, a sheet for each table, with numbers that add up.

Drop a PDF here

Any PDF works, scans too. You can also drop a Word file (.docx) to make a PDF, or paste a file with ⌘V or Ctrl+V.

  • PDF
  • DOCX

Stays on your device · up to 300 MB

How it works and help

How it works

  1. 1Add your fileA PDF, or a Word file to make a PDF. It is read in your browser and never uploaded.
  2. 2Say what you want to getA Word file to edit, an Excel table, pictures, plain text, or a PDF from a Word file.
  3. 3Convert and downloadEvery result is opened again and checked before it is offered.
Read the steps and every optionOr follow the steps written under it

A little help along the way

Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Your file is read on your device and never uploaded.

  1. Say what you want to getChoose Word to edit, Excel table, Pictures, Plain text, or PDF from Word. A page opened for one job, such as PDF to JPG, has chosen already.
  2. Add your fileDrop a PDF or a Word file (.docx), choose one, or paste it. A locked PDF asks for its password. Look through it opens the PDF to read before you convert it.
  3. Choose the pagesAll pages is the usual. Choose pages takes numbers and ranges, such as 1-3, 7, 10-.
  4. ConvertPress the big button. A bar shows how far it has got, and Stop ends it. The result is opened again and checked before it is offered: a Word file read back by another program, a workbook's cells read back, every picture decoded, a PDF opened with all its pages.
  5. Read what it becameThe result says what was made in words, such as 12 pages became a Word file with 3 tables and 8 pictures, and what to check: pages that are scans, headers and footers left out, or what OCR read.
  6. DownloadDownload gives the file; many pictures come in one ZIP. Change a setting and the result is made again when you press the button.

Questions people ask

Are numbers kept as numbers?
Yes. A cell that is plainly a number, such as 1,234.50, 12% or (300), is stored as a number shown the way the PDF writes it, so sums work. Codes with leading zeros such as 007 stay text.
What if the table has no lines?
The converter also finds tables by how their words line up. When it finds none, each page's lines become rows of a sheet, cut into cells where words stand far apart, and it says so. Check the columns.
Can I get one sheet for each page?
Yes. Under More options, choose One sheet for each page: a page's tables go one under another on its sheet, with an empty row between them.

This page is the PDF converter, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the PDF converter's own page.

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