PDF to Excel
Advanced PDF & Document ManagementPull tables out of a PDF into an .xlsx spreadsheet.
What is PDF to Excel?
PDF to Excel extracts the text from a PDF and reconstructs it as rows and columns you can open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets. It reads the position of every text fragment, clusters fragments on the same line into a row, and splits each row into cells by their horizontal position, then exports a CSV. Column detection is heuristic, so it works best on simple, evenly-spaced tables — complex or merged layouts may need a little cleanup. Everything runs in your browser and the PDF is never uploaded.
How to use PDF to Excel
Add a text-based PDF
Drop your PDF onto the drop zone. It works best on simple, text-based tables — scanned images have no positioned text to turn into cells.
Let it detect the rows
The tool reads each page, groups text into rows by vertical position, and splits them into cells by column position, showing a page-by-page progress counter.
Review the detected table
A scrollable table preview shows the first 15 rows exactly as they were parsed, so you can spot any columns that need adjusting before exporting.
Download the CSV
Click Download CSV to save a comma-separated file that opens directly in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets, ready to sort, filter, or fix up.
Common uses
- Turn a PDF bank or credit-card statement into a spreadsheet
- Pull a price list or product table out of a supplier PDF
- Get invoice line items into Excel for bookkeeping
- Extract a data table from a report so you can chart it
- Convert a PDF schedule or roster into an editable sheet
- Recover tabular data from a PDF export when you've lost the original file
Why choose FreeTools
100% private
Your files are processed inside your browser and are never uploaded to a server.
Free, no account
No sign-up, no watermark, no paywalled “premium” tier. Just open a tool and use it.
Instant
No upload, no queue, no server round-trip — work starts the moment you drop a file.
Runs in your browser
Built on open web standards. Works on any modern desktop browser, nothing to install.
No upload size caps
Nothing leaves your device, so there’s no server file-size limit — only your machine’s memory.
Yours to keep
Results download straight to your device in clean, standard file formats.