What this converter does
PDF to Excel takes the tables in a PDF, such as a bank statement, invoice, price list or report, and puts them into an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) with each value in its own cell.
A PDF doesn't actually store tables. It only records where each piece of text sits on the page. So the converter rebuilds the table from those positions: text at the same height becomes a row, gaps split a row into cells, and cells that sit under each other become a column.
It also turns numbers into real numbers that Excel can add up and sort: 1,234.50 becomes 1234.5, a bracketed amount like (120.00) becomes -120, and 15% becomes 0.15. Dates, account numbers and values with leading zeros, such as phone numbers, stay as text so nothing is changed by accident.
What converts well
Tables created by software convert cleanly, because their columns line up precisely:
- bank and credit card statements
- invoices, receipts and quotations
- reports and price lists exported from Excel, accounting software or a website
Titles and notes above or below a table go into the first column, so you keep everything from the page.
Some layouts need tidying afterwards: cells whose text wraps onto two lines, merged cells across several columns, and pages with free-form layouts rather than a grid. Scanned PDFs, where each page is a picture, contain no text, so run them through PDF OCR first.
How to convert a PDF to Excel
- Drag a PDF onto the upload area, or click to choose it.
- The PDF is read in your browser, and a preview shows the first page as a spreadsheet.
- Keep Turn numbers into real numbers ticked so you can calculate with them. Untick it to keep every value exactly as it was written.
- For a multi-page file, tick Put all pages in one sheet to get one long table, or leave it unticked to get one sheet per page.
- Click Download .xlsx and open the file in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice.
Nothing is uploaded: the PDF is read and the spreadsheet is created on your device.
Tips for a cleaner result
- Check the totals. After converting, add up a column in Excel and compare it with the total in the PDF. If they match, every number came through.
- Remove the extra lines. Headings and notes from the page land in column A. Delete the rows you don't need.
- Combine statements. To put several months of statements in one sheet, join them first with Merge PDF, then convert once with Put all pages in one sheet ticked.
- Locked PDF? If the file asks for a password, remove it with Unlock PDF first.