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PDF to Excel Beta, made effortless.

Extract PDF tables into a typed Excel workbook with automatic scan detection. Private processing, clear progress, and automatic expiry based on your session type.

Private storageQueue processingGuest files: 1 hour

Processing options

Table-aware conversion: XPPDF compares multiple extraction engines, rejects flattened results, and writes the strongest table structure into a validated Excel workbook.

Excel output mode

Files use random private names and are deleted automatically after one hour.

Private by default

Files stay outside the public web root and use random storage names.

Validated twice

File content is checked before queueing and again by the processing engine.

Built for focus

One clear workflow from upload to a secure, expiring download.

How to use PDF to Excel Beta

PDF to Excel extracts detected tables into an XLSX workbook. You can favour original layout or cleaner editable data, and image-based pages can be OCR-processed first.

Input: one PDF, up to 50 MB. Output: one XLSX workbook.

  1. Upload a table PDF: Use a source with clear rows, columns, headings, and readable numbers.
  2. Choose an output mode: Use Preserve Original Layout for visual structure or Clean Editable Data for sorting and analysis.
  3. Validate the workbook: Compare headings, row counts, dates, decimal separators, merged cells, and totals with the PDF.

Limits to review

  • PDFs do not contain native spreadsheet cells; table boundaries and data types must be inferred.
  • Scans, borderless tables, merged headings, wrapped text, and multi-page tables can require manual correction.

Frequently asked questions

Which Excel mode should I use?

Choose Preserve Original Layout for visual similarity, or Clean Editable Data when analysis and filtering matter more.

Can it convert a scanned table?

Automatic OCR can prepare image-based pages, but every extracted number and total still needs verification.

Why is the workbook not a perfect copy?

A PDF stores page geometry, not spreadsheet cells or formulas. The converter reconstructs the most likely table structure.

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