PDF to Excel

Heuristic table detection from positioned text. Works best on real tables.

Runs in this tab. The file stays here.

Drop a file here, or click to browse.

Nothing you drop here goes anywhere but your own device.

About PDF to Excel

Heuristic rows/columns from positioned text.

Works on genuinely tabular PDFs. Free-form prose will produce nonsense rows — that is expected.

Everything runs in this tab. The PDF never leaves your device for a server to process.

How to use PDF to Excel

1Drop a tabular PDF.
2Download .xlsx.

Common questions

Related tools

Excel to PDFRender the first sheet as a table in a PDF.
Extract textCopy the PDF's text layer. Scanned pages need OCR instead.

Why this one doesn't upload your file

There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation