How accurate is the table detection?

Cleanly aligned, grid-like tables extract well. Because rows are detected by text position rather than by table borders, headers that span columns, merged cells, and decorative layouts can land in unexpected cells. Plan on a quick visual check and minor cleanup, which still beats retyping.

Why does my output have extra rows that aren't part of the table?

The extraction processes all text on the page, so page titles, footers, and paragraphs around the table also become rows. Delete those rows in Excel, or crop the PDF to just the table region first with the Crop PDF tool.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

No — a scan is a picture with no text to read. For photographed or scanned tables, use the Table OCR tool, which recognizes the text optically and outputs CSV.

Are formulas or cell formatting created?

The output contains values as text/numbers in cells — no formulas, colors, or borders, since none of that information exists in the PDF. Numbers may import as text depending on locale formatting; Excel's 'Convert to Number' fixes that in one step.

PDF → Excel

Extract tables and text from PDF into an Excel spreadsheet. Processed entirely in your browser.

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Max 100MB per file

About PDF to Excel

Tables locked inside PDFs are a daily frustration: bank statements, supplier invoices, published reports, price lists — data you can see but can't sort, filter, or sum. Retyping is slow and error-prone. Convertora's PDF-to-Excel tool reads the text of each page, detects rows by the vertical position of text fragments, orders the cells in each row by horizontal position, and writes the result into a real .xlsx workbook.

Each PDF page becomes its own worksheet (named 'Page 1', 'Page 2', and so on), so a multi-page statement turns into a workbook you can navigate sheet by sheet. The reconstruction runs entirely in your browser — financial documents never leave your machine, which is exactly what you want for bank and payroll data.

How to use it

1Upload a PDF (up to 100MB).
2The tool reads every text fragment on each page along with its coordinates.
3Fragments at the same vertical position are clustered into a row; within each row, cells are sorted left to right.
4Each page's rows are written to a separate worksheet in a new workbook.
5The .xlsx file downloads with the same base name as the PDF, ready for Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc.

Common use cases

Importing bank or credit card statement lines into a budgeting spreadsheet.
Extracting invoice line items for accounts-payable processing.
Pulling published statistics or report tables into a workbook for analysis.
Converting a PDF price list into a sortable, filterable sheet.

Frequently asked questions

Tips

Multi-page tables arrive as one worksheet per page — combine them in Excel with copy-paste or Power Query's Append.
If the PDF mixes narrative pages with table pages, extract just the table pages first using Split PDF to keep the workbook tidy.

100% private — runs in your browser

Convertora processes everything on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Files never leave your browser, are never uploaded to a server, and are never seen by us or anyone else. The moment you close the tab, the data is gone — there is no temporary cloud copy, no log entry, no retained backup.

Because the work happens locally, processing speed depends on your device — but there are no rate limits, no daily caps, and no file size restrictions beyond what your browser can handle in memory. No signup, no account, no payment. The tool works the same in incognito mode, on a corporate network, or after the page has loaded once, even with the network disconnected.