PDF to Excel Converter — Free Online
A free PDF to Excel converter: the tables in your PDF become real rows and columns, gridlines or not, with numbers and dates you can calculate with. Scanned pages are read too, and a statement over several pages comes out as one table. Nothing uploaded.
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How to convert a PDF to Excel free, keeping the columns
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Add your PDFs: Drop the PDF — a statement, an invoice, a report, a price list.
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Check the settings: Choose how to lay the tables out. All in one sheet is what you want for a statement whose table runs over several pages: the repeated header is dropped and the rows join up.
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Save the result: Press Convert to Excel and open the .xlsx in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice or Google Sheets. A scanned page takes longer: it is read on your device first.
Why it doesn’t upload
The PDFs people convert to Excel are bank statements, payslips, invoices and portfolio reports — a full record of what someone earns and spends. Reading them in your browser means that record is never copied anywhere.
Check it in your browser’s Network tabWorth knowing
- Columns are found from where the text sits, because a PDF stores positions rather than a table. Ruled or clearly spaced tables come out best; tables with merged cells or columns that run into each other need a check.
- Scanned pages are read by text recognition, which is good on clean printed scans and weaker on faint copies, photos at an angle and handwriting. Check any figure that matters against the page.
- Scans in 17 languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Arabic. A scanned page takes several seconds for each of its three readings.
- Dates like 03/04/2026 are read day-first or month-first from the other dates in the same file; if none of them settles it, your browser’s language decides.
- Formulas can’t be recovered — a PDF only has the results — so totals come across as the numbers they were.
Under the hood
What happens to your file
A PDF does not know it contains a table. One is found the way a reader sees it: consecutive lines split by wide gaps that line up from row to row, which give the column boundaries. Wrapped cells are joined back to their row, repeated page headers are dropped, and numbers and dates are written as numbers and dates so the sheet can add, sort and filter them. A scanned page is drawn at 300 dpi, straightened, cleared of specks, and its ruled lines are found and painted out; where they form a grid, each cell is read on its own by Tesseract, three ways (as scanned, in black and white, and at twice the size), and the readings decided by vote.
Reference: ECMA-376 (Office Open XML) · Tesseract OCR
Why convert PDF tables to Excel on your own device?
The PDFs people pull tables out of are bank statements, invoices, price lists and financial reports — exactly the files you’d rather not upload. Here the tables are read in your browser and rebuilt as real rows and columns in an .xlsx, with amounts as numbers you can sum and sort.
A statement that runs over many pages can come out as one continuous table, which is what you want for totals, pivot tables or importing into accounting software.
Common uses for extracting tables from a PDF to Excel
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Bank statements to Excel
Turn months of transactions into one sheet for budgeting, tax or a loan application.
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Invoices and purchase orders
Pull line items into a spreadsheet to reconcile or import.
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Price lists and catalogs
Get a supplier’s PDF price list into Excel to compare and update.
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Financial reports
Extract balance sheets and income statements for analysis.
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Data published only as PDF
Government and research tables you need to chart or filter.
Tips for converting a PDF statement to Excel
- Use All in one sheet for statements that continue over many pages.
- Keep Turn amounts and dates into numbers and dates on so totals and date filters work immediately.
- Ruled or clearly spaced tables convert best; check tables with merged cells.
- Scanned statements are read on your device. Set their language under Advanced, and scan flat and the right way up for the best reading.
- Need plain values for a script or database? PDF to CSV gives a simpler file.
Questions
How do I convert a PDF to Excel without losing the columns?
Drop it here and keep the default layout. Columns are worked out from the gaps between the text, so a table with no gridlines works as well as a ruled one, and each cell is written to its own spreadsheet cell.
Can I convert a bank statement PDF to Excel?
Yes, and it’s what All in one sheet is for: every page’s rows are stacked into one table and the header repeated on each page is dropped once.
Will the numbers and dates still work in Excel?
Yes. Amounts become real numbers with their formatting kept — currency, thousands separators, decimals, brackets or a trailing minus for negatives — so SUM works. Dates become real dates in the format they were written in, so they sort and filter. Long codes and account numbers stay as text so they keep their leading zeros.
Can it convert a scanned PDF table to Excel?
Yes. A scanned page is read on your device: the table’s gridlines are found and cleaned off first, so they aren’t mistaken for 1s and ls, then the page is read three times and each word decided by vote. Where the scan has a ruled grid, every word goes into the cell it sits in.
How do I go the other way, Excel to PDF?
Use Excel to PDF, which prints each sheet with its formats and colors.