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PDF → Excel

Extract the tables inside a PDF into an Excel (.xlsx) file. Built for invoices, statements and price lists; numbers stay summable.

What it does

Typing a bank statement, invoice list or supplier price sheet into Excel by hand can take hours. This tool places every piece of text into rows and columns based on its position on the page, shows you a preview, and writes each page to its own sheet in an .xlsx file.

Amounts are stored as real numbers, so you can sum, average or build a pivot table straight away. Dates and product codes stay as text, so leading zeros are not lost.

How to use it

  1. Drop your PDF file.
  2. Press "Extract tables" and check the preview.
  3. Download the result as Excel (.xlsx): one worksheet per page.

When is it useful?

  • Sorting card or bank statement spending into categories
  • Importing invoice lines into accounting software
  • Comparing supplier price lists side by side
  • Turning tables in a report into charts

Tips

  • Check in the preview that the header row was detected correctly before downloading.
  • To join a table that runs over several pages, paste the sheets together or use Excel's Get Data tools.
  • For loosely laid-out documents, a quick review of the result is still far faster than typing.

Frequently asked questions

Does it work with every PDF?
No. The tool places text fragments into rows and columns based on their positions. That works well for regular tables such as invoices, statements and price lists; free-form documents (like a newspaper page) can produce meaningless output.
Can it extract tables from scanned documents?
No. A scanned PDF is an image and must be converted to text with OCR first. If the tool finds no text layer, it warns you.
Can the numbers be summed in Excel?
Yes. Amounts written in European style, such as "1.500,00" or "24.250,00 €", are converted into real numbers so you can sum them with formulas. Dates and product codes stay as text.
Is my file uploaded?
No. Both text extraction and Excel generation happen in your browser, inside a separate Web Worker.
Which spreadsheet apps can open the file?
It is a standard .xlsx file. It opens in Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets and Apple Numbers.
Are merged cells kept?
No. A cell that looks merged in the PDF is written to the single cell its text sits in. You can merge cells again in Excel if needed.

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