Pull tables out of a PDF and download them as a ready-to-edit Excel spreadsheet, free and private, in your browser.
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PDF to Excel reads the tables inside a text-based PDF and rebuilds them into rows and columns you can open in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. It detects where columns line up on each page, reconstructs the grid and lets you download a clean .xlsx (or .csv) file. Everything runs locally in your browser using PDF.js and SheetJS, so your document never leaves your device. Note: scanned or image-only PDFs hold no selectable text, so they need OCR first, and very irregular layouts may need a little tidying after export.
Getting a table out of a PDF and back into a spreadsheet is normally a chore of copying cells one row at a time. PDF to Excel automates that: it reads the exact position of every piece of text on the page, works out where the columns line up, and rebuilds each table as real rows and columns you can sort, total and edit. Download the result as a .xlsx workbook for Excel or Numbers, or as a .csv for Google Sheets and data imports.
Everything runs locally in your browser with PDF.js and SheetJS, so your document is never uploaded and nothing is stored on a server — a safe way to handle financial statements, invoices and reports. It works best on text-based PDFs with clear, grid-aligned tables; scanned or image-only PDFs hold no selectable text, so they need OCR software first, and very irregular layouts may need a little tidying after export. It runs the same on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, so you can pull tables from a PDF on your laptop or straight from your phone. If you need the plain text of a PDF rather than its tables, use our PDF to Word tool instead.
Reviewed by the ToolBrainy Team · Files are processed 100% in your browser · Last updated July 2026
Drag & drop or choose a text-based PDF with tables.
Click Extract Tables to rebuild the grid.
Save the data as .xlsx or .csv.
Tables are extracted locally, never uploaded.
Get a proper .xlsx you can edit and total up.
See the rebuilt table before you download.
No signup, no limits and no watermarks, ever.
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Your PDF may be scanned (an image). Scanned PDFs hold no selectable text, so they need OCR software first. Pages with no clear table grid may also extract as plain rows.
The tool reads the position of every piece of text on the page, clusters them into aligned columns and rebuilds the rows. Clean, grid-aligned tables convert best; very irregular layouts may need minor tidying after export.
Yes. All extraction happens in your browser using PDF.js and SheetJS — no data is ever uploaded to a server.
Yes, completely free with no signup, no limits and no watermarks.
No. PDF to Excel runs entirely in your browser, so there is nothing to download or install — just open the page and extract your tables.
You can save the extracted tables as an .xlsx workbook for Excel or Numbers, or as a .csv file for Google Sheets and data imports.
No. Scanned or image-only PDFs contain no selectable text, so they need OCR software first. This tool works on text-based PDFs.
Yes. The tool works in any modern mobile browser, so you can extract tables from a PDF straight from your phone.