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CSV to PDF

Exports from banks, CRMs and web apps come as CSV. Turn one into a tidy table with column headings on every page, ready to print or send.

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Why convert CSV to PDF

Opening a CSV in Excel and printing it means fiddling with column widths and page setup every time. Here the delimiter is detected, columns are sized to their content and wide tables are switched to landscape automatically.

Number formatting and dates are kept as text exactly as in the file, so nothing is silently reformatted — a common Excel surprise with leading zeros and long IDs.

How it works

  1. Drop CSV, TSV files onto the box above, click it to browse, or paste from the clipboard.
  2. Adjust the options if you need to — the defaults suit most cases.
  3. Press Convert. The work happens on your device, so speed depends on your computer or phone.
  4. Download the PDF.

About the formats

CSV · Comma-separated values · .csv

A plain-text table with one row per line and commas (or semicolons) between cells: the lowest common denominator for exchanging data.

  • CSV has no sheets, formulas, formatting or data types — everything is text.
  • European locales often use semicolons as separators because the comma is the decimal mark.
  • Values containing commas or line breaks must be wrapped in double quotes.

TSV · Tab-separated values · .tsv

Like CSV but with tabs between cells, which avoids the comma-versus-decimal problem and needs no quoting for most text.

  • Copying cells from Excel to a text editor produces tab-separated text.
  • TSV cannot contain literal tabs inside a cell without an escape convention.
  • Many database tools import TSV faster than CSV because there is no quoting to parse.

PDF · Portable Document Format · .pdf

The fixed-layout document standard: looks the same on every device and printer, which is why forms, invoices, contracts and reports are shared as PDF.

  • A PDF can contain vector text, embedded fonts, images, form fields, annotations and digital signatures.
  • Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages; they need OCR before the text can be searched or copied.
  • PDF is an open ISO standard (ISO 32000) since 2008.

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