PDF Table to Excel Converter
Drop in a PDF, get every table back as a clean Excel file — no retyping, no sign-up.
To get a table out of a PDF and into Excel, upload the PDF here: every table it finds is returned as its own .xlsx file, with the header row bolded and columns sized to fit. One table downloads as a single Excel file; two or more arrive as a zip. It works on digital PDFs with ruled tables — scanned pages need OCR first.
Results are estimates provided for general information.
Your file is processed in memory and immediately discarded. We never store your documents.
Drop a PDF here
or — one PDF, up to 4MB
- 1. Drop your PDFDigital PDFs with ruled tables. Nothing is stored.
- 2. We find the tablesEvery table on every page, rows and columns rebuilt.
- 3. Download ExcelOne .xlsx per table — a zip if there is more than one.
About the PDF Table to Excel Converter
A table trapped in a PDF is one of the most annoying things in office work. Copy-paste turns a tidy grid into a single mangled column, and the usual fallback is retyping it by hand. This tool reads the PDF the way a spreadsheet would: it looks for the ruling lines that make up a table grid, reconstructs the rows and columns, cleans up the line breaks and stray spacing that PDFs love to inject into cells, and writes each table out as its own Excel file. Every table gets its own .xlsx so a report with a revenue table, a SKU table, and a headcount table gives you three separate files instead of one jumbled sheet. Headers are bolded and column widths are sized to the content, so the file is readable the moment you open it. There are two real limits worth knowing up front. Scanned PDFs — photos or images of pages — contain no selectable text, so there is nothing to extract until you run them through OCR. And tables held together by alignment alone, with no border lines, are much harder to detect and may not come through. Both cases tell you exactly what happened rather than handing back an empty file.
Frequently asked questions
Why won't my scanned PDF work?+
A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, not text. There are no characters or table lines underneath for the extractor to read, so there is genuinely nothing to pull out. Run the file through OCR first — Adobe Acrobat's 'Recognize Text' or the free ocrmypdf both work — which adds a real text layer, then upload it again.
Is there a file size limit?+
Yes — 4MB per file. That covers the large majority of reports and statements. If your PDF is bigger, compress it or split out just the pages with the tables you need and upload those. Files over the limit are caught in your browser before anything is uploaded.
Is it free?+
Yes. It is completely free, there is no sign-up, and there is no watermark or row cap on what you get back. One PDF per run.
Do you store my PDF?+
No. Your file is processed entirely in memory and discarded as soon as the Excel files are handed back. Nothing is written to disk, nothing goes into a database, and we keep no copy of your document or the tables inside it.
My table has no border lines — why didn't it come through?+
Detection keys off the ruled lines that form a table grid. When a 'table' is really just text aligned into columns with spacing, there are no lines to find and extraction may miss it. If you hit this, the tool tells you the PDF had text but no detectable grid rather than pretending it worked.
What do the file names mean?+
Each file is named after your PDF plus where the table came from — for example report_page2_table1.xlsx is the first table on page 2 of report.pdf. That way a zip of several tables stays traceable back to the exact page you found them on.