PDF to Excel: Tables to a Clean Spreadsheet
Turn the tables in a PDF into an Excel workbook with numbers stored as numbers, a frozen header row and filters. Free, in your browser.
Paste cells or a Google Sheets link
Output
How it works
Add your PDF
Drop in the PDF. The text is read from the file itself - nothing is guessed from a picture - and rebuilt into rows and columns.
Check the table
Every column is shown with what it holds - numbers, dates or text - so you can see it was read right before you save it.
Download the Excel file
Or copy it, or send it straight to a new Google Sheet. Nothing is uploaded at any point.
PDF to Excel, clean and ready to work with
PDF to Excel here gives you a workbook you can use at once: numbers stored as numbers so they add up, a bold frozen header row, a filter on every column, and columns sized to their contents.
This pdf to excel converter reads the table from the PDF's own text, so the figures are exact. To convert pdf to excel, drop the PDF in and download the pdf to xlsx result.
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Why it matters
Private by design
Bank statements, payroll and customer lists never leave your computer: the file is read and written in your browser.
Nothing silently changed
Leading zeros, long ID numbers, commas inside quotes and line breaks inside cells come through exactly as they were.
Numbers stay numbers
Values like 1,234.50, $1,200 and 7% are recognised, so Excel and JSON get real numbers rather than text.
Questions
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Only when the scan has a text layer (most scanners and Adobe Acrobat add one with OCR). A scan that is only a picture has no text to read; the page says so rather than handing back an empty file. Google Drive can add the text layer: upload the PDF and open it with Google Docs.
What if a table spans several pages?
Every page is read and the rows are joined into one table. A header row repeated at the top of each page is kept once.
What about text that wraps inside a cell?
A line that has nothing in the first column, directly under a row that does, is that row's wrapped text and is joined back to it. Switch that off if your table has genuinely empty first cells.
Are commas, quotes and line breaks inside cells handled?
Yes. Cells are read and written to the CSV standard (RFC 4180): a cell with a comma, a quote or a line break is quoted, and quotes inside are doubled, so nothing splits into the wrong column.
Will leading zeros and long numbers survive?
Yes. Cells are kept as the text they were: 00123 stays 00123 and a 16-digit account number is not turned into 1.23E+15. In Excel output, such cells are stored as text for exactly that reason.
Does it work with Google Sheets?
Paste a Google Sheets link (shared as "Anyone with the link") or copy the cells and paste them. To send a result to Google Sheets, use Open in Google Sheets: the table is copied and a new sheet opens, ready for Ctrl+V.
Is my data uploaded?
No. The whole conversion runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your computer.
Can it open a password-protected PDF or Excel file?
Yes. Drop it in and you are asked for the password; the file is unlocked in your browser and the password is never sent or saved. PDFs locked with RC4 or AES (up to AES-256, PDF 2.0) and Excel workbooks saved with Encrypt with Password both open. A PDF that only restricts copying or printing opens without asking. Without the password nothing is guessed: the file stays shut.
How big a file can it handle?
Hundreds of thousands of rows are fine on a normal laptop; the preview shows the first rows and the download has them all.