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Bank statements, price lists and reports lock their tables inside PDFs. Extract them into Excel with columns intact instead of pasting jumbled text.

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Why convert PDF to Excel (XLSX)

Copying a table from a PDF viewer usually produces one long column or cells run together. A converter that measures where text sits on the page rebuilds the grid, so numbers land in the right cells and can be summed straight away.

Two detection strategies are used: ruled tables (visible lines) and whitespace-aligned tables (no lines, as in most statements). Each table becomes its own sheet, and the original page number is noted.

How it works

  1. Drop PDF file 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 file is uploaded securely, converted, and the result is offered for download.
  4. Download the Excel (XLSX).

About the formats

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.

Excel (XLSX) · Microsoft Excel workbook · .xlsx

The current Excel format: multiple sheets, formulas, formatting, charts and pivot tables in one file.

  • XLSX stores both the formula and its last computed value, so a converted CSV contains the values.
  • Maximum 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per sheet.
  • XLSM is the same format with macros enabled.

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